Prisoners of Paradise

Prisoners of Paradise chronicled the acting and producing careers of German/Jewish actor Kurt Gerron and the struggles he faced during the tumultuous WWII period and Hitlers rise to power.  I personally found this movie pretty sad.  Even though i knew the outcome before it started there was still this glimmer of hope inside me that led me to believe that in the end the good guys would come out on top.  I kept thinking and hoping that Kurt Gerron would escape Germany just in time, but I knew he wouldn't. Obviously no one could ever imagine that Hitler would gain so much power and all control of the situation would be lost, but it is still sad to see those people stay and hold hope that their home would be returned to normalcy, only to be snatched up and thrown into concentration camps.  As the movie progressed i felt for Kurt Gerron even more because once he was put into Theresienstadt he was hated by his fellow Jewish prisoners for helping to create a piece of Nazi propaganda.  He was promised his life for making this movie and even though in the end they killed him anyway, every single prisoner would have done what he did if they were put into the situation.  Of course he did not want to help the evil enemy, but when you are locked in a concentration camp, starving and tortured, you will do anything to survive and I felt it was unfair for people to turn on Kurt Gerron for what he did.