Kurt Gerron
Birthday: 1897-05-11
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Biography: Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands, where he and his family had fled to. In 1944 he was forced by the Nazis to make the propaganda film Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. The film was completed not long before the end of the war, but was never shown to the public, and only fragments remain.
Movies
People on Sunday
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...
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The Three from the Filling Station
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, they all fa...
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Manege
Brothers Ralph and Gaston are performing in a circus tightrope act, in a fight over a woman. Ralph e...
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The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who wa...
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One Night at the Grand Hotel
Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he...
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We Need No Money
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Gr...
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his ad...
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from t...
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The White Horse Inn
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg....
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Two in a Car
A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, i...
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Madame Pompadour
Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour....
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The Golden Butterfly
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dan...
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Variety
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the...
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Theresienstadt
Nazi propaganda film about the Czech "Theresienstadt ghetto" in Terezín. The film was supposed to sh...
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The Eternal Jew
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...
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Burglars
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in lo...
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Love in the Ring
Originally Liebe in Ring, this German part-talkie is a generally agreeable effort to transform heavy...
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Her Majesty Love
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fa...
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes...
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The Alley Cat
A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer....
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Fairground People
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. Whe...
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Dolly is making a career
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfrie...
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Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt....
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Girls for Sale!
White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub s...
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen
The Duty to Remain Silent (German: Die Pflicht zu schweigen) is a 1928 German silent drama film dire...
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The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak o...
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Fighting the White Slave Traffic
A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brou...
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Das tanzende Wien
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving...
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The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who ...
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Agitated Woman
The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must ...
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Accident
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany....
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The Blue Angel
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola...
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Daughter of the Regiment
Marie, adopted as a baby by Warrant Officer Guippo, helps a smuggler escape because he saved his lif...
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Trapeze
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both...
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Prisoner of Paradise
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s an...
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Fighting the White Slave Traffic
A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brou...
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Road to Rio
A young woman causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of Brasi...
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