The best Kurt Gerron’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Kurt Gerron’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Kurt Gerron.
The Blue Angel
7.7/10
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.
Diary of a Lost Girl
7.8/10
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.
People on Sunday
7.3/10
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.
The Three from the Filling Station
6.5/10
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.
The Eternal Jew
4.5/10
Third Reich documentary about the Jews intent on world domination and their role in cultural decay. Street scenes are shown, along with clips from Jewish cinema of the day and photos of Jewish celebrities, while the narrator explains the Jewish problem. The climax and resolution of the film is Hitler's 1939 announcement that the Jewish race will be forced off European ground should they achive their goal of turning the European people against one another again in the form of a second world war.
Variety
7.4/10
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
White Hell of Pitz Palu
7.3/10
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Theresienstadt
3.3/10
Nazi propaganda film about the "Theresienstadt ghetto". 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.
The Alley Cat
6.8/10
"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
Accident
6.8/10
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Agitated Woman
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.
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
5.7/10
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
A Crazy Night
5.8/10
Prisoner of Paradise
7.5/10
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.
Trapeze
6.8/10
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.
Benno Stehkragen
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Das Frauenhaus von Rio
6.4/10
"Girls for Sale!" - White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.
Manege
