@jonjamg Additionally, Gerron was sent away for exicution following the completion of the propaganda film. He was actually on the last train that left theresienstadt. Anyway, that would be an interesting piece focused on Gerron.
@jonjamg There is a play titled "Camp Comedy" by Roy Kift. It's a rather eerie account of the beautification of theresienstadt and Gerron's role as the director of this piece of propaganda commissioned by Hitler and Goebbels. Some of this footage still exists today on youtube in fact. It was very interesting to put up(and it appauled many as it came from a high-school in the middle of nowhere). After being cast as kurt, and rdigging a big, i found that the play was mostly historically accurate.
@aitch3 I agree! After I saw Prisoner of Paradise, I thought, why didn't I know about Theriesenstadt? All of those personalities, the humanity of the artists, and the horror of the third reich on display simultaneously. There is no way to make a movie about it without a firm background in the Weimar.
On a side note. Perhaps the Weimar is not well covered by the film industry because you have to accept those who later became Nazis as sympathetic. It is the change that is interesting.
@aitch3 There is film about Comedian Harmonists filmed by Joseph Vilsmaier but it is not set completely in Weimar period. Most deal with rise of Nazi Germany and then into that era. There is a difficulty with Gerron in that he was thought by some to have sold himself out to the Nazis when he made the film about Theresienstadt for them. Weimar Germany was a world cultural centre, worth remembering but not as interesting to film makers as the Nazi era.
@Brocattoroo True. A sad life especailly as he is seen by some as working with the Nazis when he made the film.
jonjamg 3 months ago
@jonjamg Additionally, Gerron was sent away for exicution following the completion of the propaganda film. He was actually on the last train that left theresienstadt. Anyway, that would be an interesting piece focused on Gerron.
Brocattoroo 3 months ago
@jonjamg There is a play titled "Camp Comedy" by Roy Kift. It's a rather eerie account of the beautification of theresienstadt and Gerron's role as the director of this piece of propaganda commissioned by Hitler and Goebbels. Some of this footage still exists today on youtube in fact. It was very interesting to put up(and it appauled many as it came from a high-school in the middle of nowhere). After being cast as kurt, and rdigging a big, i found that the play was mostly historically accurate.
Brocattoroo 3 months ago
@aitch3 I agree! After I saw Prisoner of Paradise, I thought, why didn't I know about Theriesenstadt? All of those personalities, the humanity of the artists, and the horror of the third reich on display simultaneously. There is no way to make a movie about it without a firm background in the Weimar.
On a side note. Perhaps the Weimar is not well covered by the film industry because you have to accept those who later became Nazis as sympathetic. It is the change that is interesting.
Joecredit3 8 months ago
@aitch3 There is film about Comedian Harmonists filmed by Joseph Vilsmaier but it is not set completely in Weimar period. Most deal with rise of Nazi Germany and then into that era. There is a difficulty with Gerron in that he was thought by some to have sold himself out to the Nazis when he made the film about Theresienstadt for them. Weimar Germany was a world cultural centre, worth remembering but not as interesting to film makers as the Nazi era.
jonjamg 9 months ago
@jonjamg too bad. Could make for a great Major Motion Picture. Seems like no movies are set in Wiemar Germany except for Cabaret.
aitch3 9 months ago
@aitch3 Probably the closest we will get.
jonjamg 9 months ago
@jonjamg I know but that is a documentary,
aitch3 9 months ago
@aitch3 Prisoner of Paradise
jonjamg 9 months ago
A feature film should be made about Kurt Gerron
aitch3 9 months ago