Kurt Gerron's Karussell / Seventh Art Releasing ; TVentures ; in Koproduktion, Vera Vista, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Sender Freies Berlin ; producenten, Vera Lastuvkova, Thomas Mertens, Frank Roumen, Ilona Ziok ; ein Film von Ilona Ziok.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Ziok, Ilona, director.
• Lastuvkova, Vera, producer.
• Mertens, Thomas, producer.
• Roumen, Frank, producer.
• Kift, Roy, narrator.
• Lemper, Ute, 1963- performer.
• Kahan, Bente, performer.
• Ofner, Ursula, performer.
• Seventh Art Releasing (Firm), producer.
• Vera Vista (Firm), producer.
• TV Ventures (Firm), producer.
• Association relative à la télévision européenne, producer.
• Nederlands Filmmuseum, producer.
• Sender Freies Berlin, producer.
• Alden Films, distributor.
• Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Language:

• Czech
• English
• French
• German

Subjects (All):

• Gerron, Kurt, 1897-1944.
• Actors--Germany--Biography.
• Actors.
• Germany.
• Czech Republic.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Biography.
• Motion picture producers and directors.
• Terezín (Severočeský kraj, Czech Republic).
• Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)--History.
• Theresienstadt (Concentration camp).
• History.
• World War, 1939-1945--Children--Czech Republic.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Personal narratives.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• Documentary films.
• Personal narratives.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videocassette (63 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
• 1/2 in.

Other Title:

• Karussell
• Title on container and cassette : Karoussel

Place of Publication:

Clarksburg, NJ : Alden Films, [between 2000 and 2009?]

Language Note:

In German, Czech, French, English, with English subtitles.

System Details:

• VHS - NTSC.
• analog
• magnetic
• VHS
• NTSC

Summary:

"Karoussel, named for a cabaret in Theresienstadt that Kurt Gerron had created, shows life and fate intermeshed with the decadence of Weimar Germany along with the anti-semitism of pre-war Europe leading up to the Holocaust."--Container.

Participant:

• Ute Lemper, Bente Kahan, Ursula Ofner, Ben Becker.
• Narrator, Roy Kift.

Credits:

Cameraman, Jacob Blowul ...[et al.] ; editor, Christina Orrall ... [et al.]

Notes:

Originally prodused in 1999.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

OCLC:

48505714

Online:

The Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund Home Page