Kurt Gerron
Born in Berlin, Germany — May 11 1897• Died Oct 30 1944
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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…
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The Blue Angel
Kiepert
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
People on Sunday
Kurt
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
The Three from the Filling Station
Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Variety
Hafenarbeiter
Stupéfiants
Directing
Trapeze
The White Demon
Directing
A Mad Idea
Directing
Manege
Bela Garay
Fairground People
The Golden Butterfly
Road to Rio
Barera, casino owner
We Need No Money
Bank President Binder
Burglars
Polizeikommissar
Two in a Car
Agent Niedlich
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Directing
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
Casanovas Erbe
Daughter of the Regiment
Quippo
Unmoral
Matrosenemil
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
Diary of a Lost Girl
Dr. Vitalis
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Spielbankdirektor
Agitated Woman
Wladimir
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Wachtmeister
The White Horse Inn
Heut tanzt Mariett
Brigon
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Georgakopoulos
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Maxe
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Directing
Accident
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Steak
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Achaz
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
A Crazy Night
Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Incognito
Directing
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
Photograph
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
A Woman at the Wheel
Directing
My Wife, the Adventuress
Directing
Dolly is making a career
Silbermann
Die Hotelratte
Hüsgens
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Iwan Daniloff
Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming
Directing
Das tanzende Wien
Feuerwehrmann
Madame Pompadour
Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Love in the Ring
Box-Manager
Die weiße Spinne
Die drei Mannequins
Heut' kommt's drauf an
Directing
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Directing
The mute of Portici
Directing
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Boxer
Der Held des Tages
Halbseide
Willi Krach
Der Soldat der Marie
Wachmeister Knöppke
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
The Alley Cat
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Meyers
Things Are Getting Better Already
Directing
Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Benno Stehkragen
Cabaret program No. 1
Directing
Girls for Sale!
Kastillo
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
Der große Unbekannte
Bankier Tupperwill
Vater geht auf Reisen
Kommissar
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Die Schmiede
Berlin After Dark
Jernmax
Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2
Directing
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Steak