Prisoner of Paradise

Name: Prisoner of Paradise
Director: Stuart Sender
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2003-03-07
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Ian Holm, Robert Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel, Renée Saint-Cyr

“The startling true story of a Jewish director ordered to make a propaganda film for the Nazis.”

2003

1h 36m

Documentary

Director: Stuart Sender

Writer: Malcolm Clarke

Overview

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.