Prisoner of Paradise (2003)

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.

Production

BBC · PBS · Café Productions · History Television · U5 Filmproduktion · Media Verite