Kurt Gerron
Actor · 1897 – 1944 · 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, 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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Movie7.3DramaPrim 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.
Movie6.5CrimeDramaA tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Movie7.2DramaA 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.
Movie7.3DramaThymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Movie8.0CrimeDer große Unbekannte
1927 · 1 votes
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Drie wenschen
1937
Movie8.0ComedyMarie, adopted as a baby by Warrant Officer Guippo, helps a smuggler escape because he saved his life previously. She finds him again in Paris while she is engaged to Count Bertrand.
Movie10.0DramaRobby 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.
Movie3.0DocumentaryNazi 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.
Theresienstadt
1944 · 7 votes
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Movie4.7DocumentaryA 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.
Movie6.1ComedyDramaWilly, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, they all fall in love with the same girl.
Movie8.0DramaBenno Stehkragen
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyAs is the case every year, things get lively at the famous Nice Carnival: People travel from all over the world to join in the revelry. Wearing masks and makeup, people dance in the streets—but not all the revelers are really here for the carnival: Some use the masks merely as a disguise.
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
1927 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaA German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.
Movie7.0Directed by Martin Berger.
Die Schmiede
1924 · 1 votes
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Movie9.0DramaA young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
Movie6.7DramaCrimeMurderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Movie6.8DocumentaryThe film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.
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2003 · 4 votes
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Die Hotelratte
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.4MusicComedyThe young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
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Der Soldat der Marie
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyIn this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.