"Prisoners of Paradise" was a wonderful film. I didn't know anything about the Theresienstadt concentration camp or the famous German-Jewish actor and director Kurt Geron. Although I have learned about the Holocaust and WW II multiple times all throughout my life, this was one of those instances where I had very little knowledge about the story. To learn more about the propaganda that the Nazis were involved in, as well as the life of Kurt Geron, was very interesting and tied together very well.
The documentary itself did a wonderful job in tieing together Kurt Geron's life and his story with his time at Theresienstadt, showing how the two were interchangable. Geron was one of the many prominent people who was forced to live at Theresienstadt for many years before he too was killed like so many others. Because he was a talented individual who was involved heavily in the film industry of the time, the Nazis forced Geron to make a propaganda film for them with the promise that he would survive. This story is compelling because the subject matter is very different than any other Holocaust horror story that I have seen or heard from in a very long time, and really draws you into the history of Geron and the others who struggled to survive in Theresienstadt. Overall I really enjoyed the documentary and would recommend it to others.
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