Kurt Gerron

Known for ActingBorn 1897-05-11Died 1944-10-30Berlin, Germany

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 forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands, where he and his family had fled to. In 1944 he was forced by the Nazis to make the propaganda film Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. The film was completed not long before the end of the war, but was never shown to the public, and only fragments remain.Read more

Movies & web series

Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten

Incognito

Her Majesty Love

Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming

Vater geht auf Reisen

The White Demon

Trapeze

Cabaret program No. 1

Dolly is making a career

Unmoral

The Transformation of Dr. Bessel

Das tanzende Wien

Der Soldat der Marie

Agitated Woman

The Golden Butterfly

Die drei Mannequins

Der Held des Tages

The Alley Cat

A Woman at the Wheel

Madame Pompadour

Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim

Die Flucht vor der Liebe

Berlin After Dark

Manege

Ein Tag der Rosen im August..

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

Die schönsten Beine von Berlin

Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell

Der Liebe Lust und Leid

Heut' kommt's drauf an

Two in a Car

Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2

Fairground People

Daughter of the Regiment

Heut tanzt Mariett

Die Hotelratte

Casanovas Erbe

Der große Unbekannte

Benno Stehkragen

A Crazy Night

Die weiße Spinne

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

One Night at the Grand Hotel

Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood

Prisoner of Paradise

Stupéfiants

My Wife, the Adventuress

The Blue Angel