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Kurt Gerrons Karussell

05/13/1999

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1hr 4min

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Documentary

STORY

This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War II, Gerron went from being a leading light of the German entertainment community (he made over 70 films and sang "Mack the Knife" in the first performance of The Three-Penny Opera) to a prisoner directing a propaganda film for the Nazis about a makeshift club at Theresienstadt, which was described as a "concentration camp for celebrities." Gerron was eventually executed at Auschwitz. Director Ilona Ziok combines archival footage of Gerron with interviews of peers and survivors who describe how Gerron tragically believed his gifts as an entertainer would save his life -- and how he enthusiastically kept performing right up to his death.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ben Becker
  • Bente Kahan
  • Ute Lemper
  • Renée Saint-Cyr

    Director

  • Ilona Ziok

INFORMATION

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LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Ben Becker

    Self

    Bente Kahan

    Self

    Ute Lemper

    Self

    Renée Saint-Cyr

    Self