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Kurt Gerron
Berlin, Germany
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,…
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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 Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. The film was completed not long before the end of the war, but was never shown to the public, and only fragments remain.
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2003
Prisoner of Paradise
Movie Self (archival footage)
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1944
Theresienstadt
Movie Regisseur - Schauspieler
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1940
The Eternal Jew
Movie (archive footage)
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1937
Drie wenschen
Movie
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1936
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Movie Director
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1935
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Movie Director
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1935
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Movie Director
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1934
Incognito
Movie Director
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1933
A Woman at the Wheel
Movie Director
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1933
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Movie Director
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1933
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Movie Director
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1933
Her Majesty Love
Movie Hornberg
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1932
Stupéfiants
Movie Director
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1932
The White Demon
Movie Director
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1932
A Mad Idea
Movie Director
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1932
Vater geht auf Reisen
Movie Kommissar
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1932
Two in a Car
Movie Agent Niedlich
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1932
Things Are Getting Better Already
Movie Director
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1931
We Need No Money
Movie Bank President Binder
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1931
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Movie Achaz
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1931
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
Movie Director
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1931
My Wife, the Adventuress
Movie Director
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1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Movie Spielbankdirektor
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1931
Trapeze
Movie
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1931
Cabaret program No. 1
Movie Director
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1931
The mute of Portici
Movie Director
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1931
Road to Rio
Movie Barera, casino owner
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1931
Madame Pompadour
Movie Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
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1930
Burglars
Movie Polizeikommissar
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1930
Dolly is making a career
Movie Silbermann
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1930
The Three from the Filling Station
Movie Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
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1930
Fairground People
Movie
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1930
The Blue Angel
Movie Kiepert
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1930
Love in the Ring
Movie Box-Manager
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1930
People on Sunday
Movie Kurt
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1929
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Movie guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
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1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
Movie Dr. Vitalis
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1929
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Movie Steak
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1929
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Movie
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1929
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Movie Steak
