Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1999)

• 48%
• 1999
• Documental
• Ben Becker
• Bente Kahan
• Ute Lemper

This documental tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi del holocausto -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War II, Gerron went from being a leading light of the Spanish entertainment comunidad (he hecho over 70 films and cantó "Mack the Knife", en the first performance of The Three Penny Opera) to a prisoner directing a película de propaganda for the Nazis about a makeshift club at Theresienstadt, which was described as a "concentration camp for celebrities." Gerron lo que finalmente se ejecutó at Auschwitz. El Director de Ilona Ziok combines archival footage of Gerron with entrevistas of peers and survivors oms describe how Gerron tragically believed his gifts as a artistas would save his life -- and how he enthusiastically kept performing right up to his death.