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Kurt Gerron : Gefangen im Paradies / Althaus präsentiert 'Prisoner of Paradise' eine Produktion von Média Verité und Café Productions in Zusammenarbeit mit BBC History Television Inc, Public Broadcasting Service und US Filmproduktion ; ein Film von Malcolm Clarke und Stuart Sender.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD/PAL 033 820
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Gerron, Kurt, 1897-1944.
- Gerron, Kurt.
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp).
- Theresienstadt (Motion picture).
- Jewish motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Biography.
- Jewish motion picture producers and directors.
- Nazi propaganda.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Propaganda.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Biographical films.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color with sequences in black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Gefangen im Paradies
- English title: Prisoner of Paradise
- Place of Publication:
- Leipzig : Arthaus, 2008.
- Language Note:
- German and English with German subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Region 2.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- region 2
- Summary:
- This is a documentary which chronicles Gerron's remarkable and tragic life story, in which his desire to create and his need to work in the limelight led him to both betrayal and his doom. A well-known Jewish actor and director in the 1920's and 30's, he was forced to direct Theresienstadt (1944, aka The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews), a remarkable bit of fabrication which portrayed one of the Third Reich's death camps as a safe haven for Jewish refugees. Gerron's reward for his hard work on the film was a one-way trip in a railroad car to a gas chamber. -- Cf. AllMovie database.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio: 1.78:1, Letterbox.
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2002.
- Extras: Presseheft, Biographie Kurt Gerron, Trailer "Theresienstadt sieht aus wie Cuort."
- Nominated for Oscar as best documentary, 2002.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 321040262
- Publisher Number:
- 4006680042114
- 501862 Arthaus
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