"Prisoner of Paradise" is an important and smoothly mounted meditation on moral choices within the entertainment biz -- and the consequences of industryites turning a blind eye to outside dangers. Pic ...

One of the hottest high-end docs at the two-day nonfiction sales bazaar Mipdoc is likely to be “Prisoner of Paradise,” a feature-length work from Alliance Atlantis. It’s nominated for an Oscar and its ...

Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then ...

"You wonder, 'What would I have done in this situation?' Can we judge?" said Silvia Martin, actress and survivor of three concentration camps. "Of course, you need to know the man. I had the ...

PRISONER OF PARADISE is the startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a well known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920’s and ‘30’s. Among his greatest ...