Kurt Gerron
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 11, 1897, Berlin, Germany
- Died
- October 30, 1944
- Movies
- 80
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1944 | Theresienstadt | Director, Writer |
| 1936 | Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood | Director |
| 1935 | The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata | Director |
| 1935 | Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten | Director |
| 1934 | Incognito | Director |
| 1933 | A Woman at the Wheel | Director |
| 1933 | Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming | Director, Writer |
| 1933 | Heut' kommt's drauf an | Director |
| 1932 | Stupéfiants | Director |
| 1932 | The White Demon | Director |
| 1932 | A Mad Idea | Director |
| 1932 | Things Are Getting Better Already | Director |
| 1931 | Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2 | Director |
| 1931 | My Wife, the Adventuress | Director |
| 1931 | Cabaret program No. 1 | Director |
| 1931 | The mute of Portici | Director |
| 1926 | Der Liebe Lust und Leid | Director |
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