Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

Born: May 11, 1897
Died: October 28, 1944
in Berlin, Germany

Movies for Kurt Gerron...

Prisoner of Paradise
Title: Prisoner of Paradise
Character: Self (archival footage)
Released: March 7, 2003
Type: Movie
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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Theresienstadt
Title: Theresienstadt
Character: Regisseur - Schauspieler
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Nazi propaganda film about the "Theresienstadt ghetto". 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.
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The Eternal Jew
Title: The Eternal Jew
Character: (archive footage)
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Her Majesty Love
Title: Her Majesty Love
Character: Hornberg
Released: February 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
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Vater geht auf Reisen
Title: Vater geht auf Reisen
Character: Kommissar
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
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Two in a Car
Title: Two in a Car
Character: Agent Niedlich
Released: March 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.
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We Need No Money
Title: We Need No Money
Character: Bank President Binder
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.
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One Night at the Grand Hotel
Title: One Night at the Grand Hotel
Character: Achaz
Released: December 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery even to himself.
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Title: Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Character: Spielbankdirektor
Released: August 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
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Trapeze
Title: Trapeze
Released: August 14, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Madame Pompadour
Title: Madame Pompadour
Character: Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Released: January 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour.
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Burglars
Title: Burglars
Character: Polizeikommissar
Released: December 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
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Dolly is making a career
Title: Dolly is making a career
Character: Silbermann
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
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The Three from the Filling Station
Title: The Three from the Filling Station
Character: Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Released: September 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
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Those of the Sideshow
Title: Those of the Sideshow
Released: August 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
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The Blue Angel
Title: The Blue Angel
Character: Kiepert
Released: April 1, 1930
Type: Movie
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.
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Love in the Ring
Title: Love in the Ring
Character: Box-Manager
Released: March 17, 1930
Type: Movie
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People on Sunday
Title: People on Sunday
Character: Kurt
Released: February 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
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The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Title: The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Character: guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Released: October 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Title: Diary of a Lost Girl
Character: Dr. Vitalis
Released: September 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
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Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Title: Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Character: Steak
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
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Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Title: Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
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Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Title: Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Character: Steak
Released: June 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.
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Daughter of the Regiment
Title: Daughter of the Regiment
Character: Quippo
Released: June 11, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Alley Cat
Title: The Alley Cat
Released: March 21, 1929
Type: Movie
"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
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Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Title: Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Character: Maxe
Released: February 28, 1929
Type: Movie
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Unmoral
Title: Unmoral
Character: Matrosenemil
Released: December 11, 1928
Type: Movie
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Accident
Title: Accident
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
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Heut tanzt Mariett
Title: Heut tanzt Mariett
Character: Brigon
Released: March 15, 1928
Type: Movie
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Die Hotelratte
Title: Die Hotelratte
Character: Hüsgens
Released: March 8, 1928
Type: Movie
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Title: Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Character: Iwan Daniloff
Released: March 2, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Title: The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Released: January 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.
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Manege
Title: Manege
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Title: The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Character: Georgakopoulos
Released: December 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
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Die weiße Spinne
Title: Die weiße Spinne
Released: October 26, 1927
Type: Movie
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Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Title: Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Character: Meyers
Released: October 14, 1927
Type: Movie
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Das tanzende Wien
Title: Das tanzende Wien
Character: Feuerwehrmann
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
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Girls for Sale!
Title: Girls for Sale!
Character: Kastillo
Released: September 15, 1927
Type: Movie
White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.
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Agitated Woman
Title: Agitated Woman
Character: Wladimir
Released: August 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. This film is considered lost.
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Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Title: Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Character: Boxer
Released: August 12, 1927
Type: Movie
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Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
Title: Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
Released: July 28, 1927
Type: Movie
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His Greatest Bluff
Title: His Greatest Bluff
Character: Rajah
Released: May 4, 1927
Type: Movie
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Der Soldat der Marie
Title: Der Soldat der Marie
Character: Wachmeister Knöppke
Released: March 4, 1927
Type: Movie
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A Crazy Night
Title: A Crazy Night
Character: Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl
Released: January 21, 1927
Type: Movie
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Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr
Title: Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr
Character: Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
Released: January 7, 1927
Type: Movie
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Der große Unbekannte
Title: Der große Unbekannte
Character: Bankier Tupperwill
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Title: Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.
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Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
Title: Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Benno Stehkragen
Title: Benno Stehkragen
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
Title: Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
Character: Photograph
Released: October 7, 1926
Type: Movie
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The White Horse Inn
Title: The White Horse Inn
Released: August 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
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Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Title: Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Character: Wachtmeister
Released: August 19, 1926
Type: Movie
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Die drei Mannequins
Title: Die drei Mannequins
Released: August 6, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Golden Butterfly
Title: The Golden Butterfly
Released: July 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known. (IMDb)
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Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Title: Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
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Halbseide
Title: Halbseide
Character: Willi Krach
Released: November 26, 1925
Type: Movie
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Variety
Title: Variety
Character: Hafenarbeiter
Released: November 16, 1925
Type: Movie
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
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O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Title: O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Released: September 28, 1925
Type: Movie
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Die Schmiede
Title: Die Schmiede
Released: January 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Directed by Martin Berger.
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Der Held des Tages
Title: Der Held des Tages
Released: June 12, 1921
Type: Movie