Kurt Gerron
Born: 1897-05-11
• 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.
Filmography
Prisoner of Paradise
Theresienstadt
The Eternal Jew
Her Majesty Love
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Vater geht auf Reisen
Two in a Car
We Need No Money
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One Night at the Grand Hotel
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Trapeze
Road to Rio
Madame Pompadour
Burglars
Dolly is making a career
The Three from the Filling Station
Fairground People
The Blue Angel
Love in the Ring
People on Sunday
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Diary of a Lost Girl
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Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
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Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Daughter of the Regiment
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
The Alley Cat
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Unmoral
Accident
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Casanovas Erbe
Heut tanzt Mariett
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Die Hotelratte
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Manege
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Die weiße Spinne
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Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Das tanzende Wien
Girls for Sale!
Agitated Woman
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Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
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Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
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Der Soldat der Marie
A Crazy Night
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Der große Unbekannte
Benno Stehkragen
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Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
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Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
The White Horse Inn
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Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Die drei Mannequins
The Golden Butterfly
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
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Halbseide
Variety
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Die Schmiede
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Der Held des Tages