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Prisoner of Paradise is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Malcolm Clarke released in USA on 11 december 2002 with Ian Holm

Prisoner of Paradise (2002)

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Released in USA 11 december 2002
Length 1h36
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating74% 3.727943.727943.727943.727943.72794

Prisoner of Paradise is a 2002 documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender, and produced as a British-Canadian-American collaboration. The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II. There he was ordered to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film. In addition to gaining positive reviews, the film was nominated for "Best Feature Documentary" in the 2003 Academy Awards. Clarke won the Directors Guild of Canada Award; he and Sender were together nominated for the 2003 Directors Guild of America Award.

Actors

Ian Holm

(Narrator (voice))Renée Saint-Cyr

(Self)Hans Albers
Marlene Dietrich
Kurt Gerron

(Self (archival footage))
And :
Peter Lorre
Martin Roman
Magda Schneider
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