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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.

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Overview: 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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Overview: Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour.

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Overview: Directed by Martin Berger.

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Overview: 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.

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Overview: The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

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Overview: 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.

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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: “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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Overview: 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 Horbes. 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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Overview: 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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Overview: Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.

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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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.

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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

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Overview: 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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Overview: 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.

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Overview: 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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Overview: 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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Overview: 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.

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Kurt Gerron Crew Credits

Title	Job	Department	Release
A Mad Idea	Director	Directing	1932-05-12
Merijntje Gijzen’s Boyhood	Director	Directing	1936-09-17
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata	Director	Directing	1935-11-07
Heut’ kommt’s drauf an	Director	Directing	1933-03-17
My Wife, the Adventuress	Director	Directing	1931-09-17
Things Are Getting Better Already	Director	Directing	1932-02-06
The mute of Portici	Director	Directing	1931-05-12
The White Demon	Director	Directing	1932-11-19
Stupéfiants	Director	Directing	1932-12-16
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten	Director	Directing	1935-02-01
Theresienstadt	Director	Directing	1944-01-01
Theresienstadt	Writer	Writing	1944-01-01
Kind, ich freu’ mich auf Dein Kommen	Director	Directing	1933-06-25
Cabaret program No. 1	Director	Directing	1931-06-05
Der Liebe Lust und Leid	Director	Directing	1926-01-01
Kind, ich freu’ mich auf Dein Kommen	Writer	Writing	1933-06-25
A Woman at the Wheel	Director	Directing	1933-09-15
Incognito	Director	Directing	1934-01-05

Translations

• English (en): Kurt Gerron —
• German (de): — Kurt Gerron (eigentl. Kurt Gerson) (geboren am 11. Mai 1897 in Berlin; gestorben am 28. Oktober 1944 im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Sänger und Regisseur. Er wurde als Jude von Nationalsozialisten verfolgt, interniert und ermordet. Gerrons wohl größte Rolle war die…
• German (de): Kurt Gerron —
• Catalan (ca): — Kurt Gerron, nascut Kurt Gerson (Berlín, Alemanya, 11 de maig de 1897 – Auschwitz, Oświęcim, Polònia, 30 d’octubre de 1944), va ser un actor i director de cinema jueu alemany. El 1944, Gerron va ser forçat a dirigir la pel·lícula de propaganda nazi mostrant les suposades bones condicions dels jueus …