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2003 Documentary 1h 36m

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.

6.3 TMDB RATING
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Principal Cast

Ian Holm

Narrator (voice)

Robert Lantz

Self

Eleonore Hertzberg

Self

Lone Koppel

Self

Renée Saint-Cyr

Self

Kurt Gerron

Self (archival footage)

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