Prisoner of Paradise

The startling true story of a Jewish director ordered to make a propaganda film for the Nazis.

This documentary chronicles the life of Kurt Gerron, a German Jew who rose to prominence as an actor and director in prewar Germany and was eventually coerced by the Nazis into making a film portraying the concentration camp called Terezin (or Theresienstadt) seem like an ideal community of relocated Jews. A well-crafted documentary adeptly narrated by actor Ian Holm, 'Prisoner of Paradise' is a fresh reminder that we should never forget what happened.