Kurt Gerron
Also Known As: Kurt Gerson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: May 11, 1897
Age: 128 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 28, 1944
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People on Sunday
Overview: A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-04
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The Three from the Filling Station
Overview: Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-15
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Manege
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Overview: Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-10-10
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Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-16
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One Night at the Grand Hotel
Overview: Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery even to himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-08
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We Need No Money
Overview: In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Overview: Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Overview: The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-31
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The White Horse Inn
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-08-27
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Two in a Car
Overview: A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-08
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Madame Pompadour
Overview: Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-08
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Die Schmiede
Overview: Directed by Martin Berger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-02
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Halbseide
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-11-26
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The Golden Butterfly
Overview: A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-07-31
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Variety
Overview: The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-11-16
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Theresienstadt
Overview: Nazi propaganda film about the Czech "Theresienstadt ghetto" in Terezín. The film was supposed to show the world that Jews didn't suffer in concentration camps. Upon completion, most Jews shown in the film (including director Kurt Gerron) were brought to Auschwitz, where they were killed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Eternal Jew
Overview: A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-28
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Burglars
Overview: The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-15
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Love in the Ring
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-17
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Her Majesty Love
Overview: Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-06
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Overview: Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-27
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The Alley Cat
Overview: "The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1929-03-21
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Fairground People
Overview: Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Horbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-13
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Der große Unbekannte
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Dolly is making a career
Overview: Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-29
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Benno Stehkragen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-08-12
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Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Overview: Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1929-06-30
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Girls for Sale!
Overview: White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-15
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Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Overview: A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-12
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The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
Overview: Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-08
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-03-02
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Heut tanzt Mariett
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-03-15
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Der Held des Tages
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-06-12
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Vater geht auf Reisen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-18
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Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Das tanzende Wien
Overview: A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Der Soldat der Marie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-03-04
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A Crazy Night
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-21
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Die weiße Spinne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-26
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Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-07
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Annemarie und ihr Ulan
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-08-19
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Die drei Mannequins
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-08-06
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Der Liebe Lust und Leid
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-28
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Die Hotelratte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-03-08
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Unmoral
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-12-11
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Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-07-28
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Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-14
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The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Overview: Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-11
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Agitated Woman
Overview: The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. This film is considered lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-08-19
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Accident
Overview: A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-06
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The Blue Angel
Overview: Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-04-01
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Die Flucht vor der Liebe
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-16
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Daughter of the Regiment
Overview: Marie, adopted as a baby by Warrant Officer Guippo, helps a smuggler escape because he saved his life previously. She finds him again in Paris while she is engaged to Count Bertrand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-06-11
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Trapeze
Overview: Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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Prisoner of Paradise
Overview: The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-07
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Casanovas Erbe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-05-15
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Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Overview: A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-12
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