Prisoner of Paradise
The startling true story of a Jewish director ordered to make a propaganda film for the Nazis.
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.
- Year: 2003
- Country: Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Media Verite, Café Productions, BBC, History Television, PBS, U5 Filmproduktion
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- Director: Stuart Sender, Malcolm Clarke
- Cast: Ian Holm, Robert Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel, Renée Saint-Cyr, Kurt Gerron