11-05-1897
Birthday
Taurus
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61
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Berlin, Germany
Place of Birth
11-05-1897
Birthday
Taurus
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
61
Total Films
Kurt Gerson
Also Known As (male)
Berlin, Germany
Place of Birth
actor
61 Works
producer
0 Works
director
18 Works
writer
2 Works
other
0 Works
Prisoner of Paradise
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.Year:
2003
Theresienstadt
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.Year:
1944
The Eternal Jew
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.Year:
1940
Her Majesty Love
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.Year:
1933
Vater geht auf Reisen
Year:
1932
Two in a Car
A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.Year:
1932
We Need No Money
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.Year:
1931
One Night at the Grand Hotel
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.Year:
1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.Year:
1931
Trapeze
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.Year:
1931
Madame Pompadour
Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour.Year:
1931
Burglars
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.Year:
1930
Dolly is making a career
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.Year:
1930
The Three from the Filling Station
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.Year:
1930
Fairground People
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.Year:
1930
The Blue Angel
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.Year:
1930
Love in the Ring
Year:
1930
People on Sunday
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.Year:
1930
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
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.Year:
1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
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.Year:
1929
Die Flucht vor der Liebe
Year:
1929
Wir halten fest und treu zusammen
Year:
1929
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.Year:
1929
Daughter of the Regiment
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.Year:
1929
The Alley Cat
"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.Year:
1929
Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur
Year:
1929
Unmoral
Year:
1928
Accident
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.Year:
1928
Casanovas Erbe
Year:
1928
Heut tanzt Mariett
Year:
1928
Die Hotelratte
Year:
1928
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
Year:
1928
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
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.Year:
1928
Manege
Year:
1928
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
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.Year:
1927
Die weiße Spinne
Year:
1927
Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell
Year:
1927
Das tanzende Wien
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.Year:
1927
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.Year:
1927
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.Year:
1927
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
Year:
1927
Die schönsten Beine von Berlin
Year:
1927
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
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.Year:
1927
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
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.Year:
1927
Der Soldat der Marie
Year:
1927
A Crazy Night
Year:
1927
Der große Unbekannte
Year:
1927
Wer wirft den ersten Stein?
Year:
1927
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
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.Year:
1927
Benno Stehkragen
Year:
1927
Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier
Year:
1926
The White Horse Inn
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.Year:
1926
Annemarie und ihr Ulan
Year:
1926
Die drei Mannequins
Year:
1926
The Golden Butterfly
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.Year:
1926
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
Year:
1926
Halbseide
Year:
1925
Variety
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.Year:
1925
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Year:
1925
Die Schmiede
Directed by Martin Berger.Year:
1924
Der Held des Tages
Year:
1921
