Kurt Gerron

Acting

Kurt Gerron

Born May 11, 1897 · Berlin, Germany

Died October 30, 1944 · aged 47

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 There…

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The Blue AngelThe Blue Angel · 1930
The Blue Angel
7.31930
MovieDrama
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
StupéfiantsStupéfiants · 1932
Stupéfiants
7.51932
MovieDrama
When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping her hooked.
TrapezeTrapeze · 1931
Trapeze
10.01931
MovieDrama
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
AccidentAccident · 1928
Accident
6.51928
MovieCrimeDrama
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Der große UnbekannteDer große Unbekannte · 1927
Der große Unbekannte
8.01927
MovieCrime
The Eternal JewThe Eternal Jew · 1940
The Eternal Jew
4.71940
MovieDocumentary
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
People on SundayPeople on Sunday · 1930
People on Sunday
7.21930
MovieDrama
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
TheresienstadtTheresienstadt · 1944
Theresienstadt
3.01944
MovieDocumentary
Nazi propaganda film about the Czech "Theresienstadt ghetto" in Terezín. The film was supposed to show the world that Jews didn't suffer in concentration camps. Upon completion, most Jews shown in the film (including director Kurt Gerron) were brought to Auschwitz, where they were killed.

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