Prisoner of Paradise
Prisoner of Paradise
Plays as part of a Double Feature with THE MORTAL STORM on 5/6/18 at the Ahrya Fine Arts.
PRISONER OF PARADISE 12 PM
Followed by a 30-minute panel with Stuart Sender, co-director of 'Prisoner of Paradise,' and progressive journalist Robert Scheer.
THE MORTAL STORM 2:30 PM
Followed by a 30-minute panel with Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Buy a ticket to see PRISONER OF PARADISE and stay to see the next one for free!
The harrowing story of Kurt Gerron, the beloved Jewish actor in Weimar Germany who made an infamous propaganda film for the Nazis extoling the Theresienstadt concentration camp, only to be
rewarded by death at Auschwitz.
THE MORTAL STORM
The film that caused Hitler to ban all MGM films from Germany!
A lost classic–the film that prompted Hitler to ban all MGM films from Germany. One of the few anti-Nazi Hollywood films released before America's entry into World War II. Jimmy Stewart stars as a German who refuses to join the rest of his small Bavarian town in supporting Nazism. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it "magnificently directed and acted ... a passionate drama, struck out of the deepest tragedy, which is comforting at this time only in its exposition of heroic stoicism.”
PRISONER OF PARADISE 12 PM
Followed by a 30-minute panel with Stuart Sender, co-director of 'Prisoner of Paradise,' and progressive journalist Robert Scheer.
THE MORTAL STORM 2:30 PM
Followed by a 30-minute panel with Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Buy a ticket to see PRISONER OF PARADISE and stay to see the next one for free!
The harrowing story of Kurt Gerron, the beloved Jewish actor in Weimar Germany who made an infamous propaganda film for the Nazis extoling the Theresienstadt concentration camp, only to be
rewarded by death at Auschwitz.
THE MORTAL STORM
The film that caused Hitler to ban all MGM films from Germany!
A lost classic–the film that prompted Hitler to ban all MGM films from Germany. One of the few anti-Nazi Hollywood films released before America's entry into World War II. Jimmy Stewart stars as a German who refuses to join the rest of his small Bavarian town in supporting Nazism. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it "magnificently directed and acted ... a passionate drama, struck out of the deepest tragedy, which is comforting at this time only in its exposition of heroic stoicism.”
Genre
Fascism,
Documentary,
Jewish Culture
Runtime
96
Language
English
Director
Stuart Sender
Cast
Ian Holm (narrator)
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 5.06.18 - 5.06.18
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