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Kurt Gerron
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.
As director
Theresienstadt
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Incognito
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
A Woman at the Wheel
A Mad Idea
Things Are Getting Better Already
The White Demon
Stupéfiants
My Wife, the Adventuress
The mute of Portici
Cabaret program No. 1
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
As actor
Prisoner of Paradise
Theresienstadt
The Eternal Jew
Drie wenschen
Her Majesty Love
Two in a Car
Vater geht auf Reisen
One Night at the Grand Hotel
We Need No Money
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Madame Pompadour
Trapeze
Road to Rio
People on Sunday
The Three from the Filling Station
Burglars
Love in the Ring
Fairground People
Dolly is making a career
The Blue Angel
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Diary of a Lost Girl
The Alley Cat
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Daughter of the Regiment
Berlin After Dark
Manege