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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-05-11

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Kurt Gerron

Biography

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.

Known for

Benno Stehkragen

Benno Stehkragen

Daughter of the Regiment

Daughter of the Regiment

Marie, 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.

Der große Unbekannte

Der große Unbekannte

Trapeze

Trapeze

Robby 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.

The Blue Angel

The Blue Angel

Prim 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.

Burglars

Burglars

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

The Eternal Jew

The Eternal Jew

A 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.

The Fugitive Lover

The Fugitive Lover

A 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’.

Der Held des Tages

Der Held des Tages

Ein Tag der Rosen im August..

Ein Tag der Rosen im August..

Theresienstadt

Theresienstadt

Nazi 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.

Die Hotelratte

Die Hotelratte

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

A 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.

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

A 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.