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Prisoner of Paradise
The startling true story of a Jewish director ordered to make a propaganda film for the Nazis.
Released
96 min
7.5/10 Votes: 415
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.
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