Prisoner of paradise / Média Vérité and Café Productions, in association with BBC ... [and others] ; directed by Malcolm Clarke & Stuart Sender ; written by Malcom Clarke ; produced by Malcolm Clarke & Karl-Eberhard Schaeffer.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-0764

Overview

Summary: "The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a well-known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920's and '30's ... [He] was captured and sent to a concentration camp, where he was ordered to write and direct a pro-Nazi propaganda film [entitled 'Theresienstadt : ein dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen siedlungsgebiet']"--Container.
Format: Video
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2005]
©2005
Locale: Germany
Edition: Widescreen format
Other Authors/Editors: Clarke, Malcolm.
Sender, Stuart.
Holm, Ian, 1931-2020.
Média Vérité (Firm)
Café Productions Ltd.
British Broadcasting Corporation.
PBS Home Video.
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Notes: Originally produced as a documentary film in 2002.

"Includes footage not seen in PBS broadcast"--Container.

Director of photography, Michael Hammon ; editors, Glenn Berman & Susan Shanks ; composer, Luc St. Pierre.

Narrated by Ian Holm.

Not rated

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital.

In English.

Closed-captioned.

Language: English
ISBN: 141570855X
9781415708552
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects: Theresienstadt (Motion picture) Jewish motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Biography. Nazi propaganda. World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda. Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Video recordings. Biographies. Gerron, Kurt,--1897-1944. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

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