Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1999) FILM WALL
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192218/
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Ben Becker Louis de Wijze Salle Fischermann Ivan Fric Kurt Gerron
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This film is the re-creation of Gerron’s cabaret show which he wrote and staged while a prisoner in Theresienstadt: the Karussel. Ute Lemper, Max Raabe (”Der Bewegte Man”) and Ben Becker (”Comedian Harmonists”) perform Gerron’s songs to an audience of those who were with him in Theresienstadt, yet survived. The combination of the ironic, bittersweet cabaret style of the songs written about and in Theresienstadt with drawings of the living hell of the camp is chillingly effective.
Those who knew and worked with Gerron recount their anecdotes of this elusive character who was once described as “the night ghost”. The baker of Theresienstadt remembers how Gerron gave him a one hour elocution lesson in return for a loaf of bread. Actress Rene St. Cyr recalls how Gerron finally managed to persuade her into shooting a nude shower scene – something unheard of at the time.
The final tragedy of Gerron’s fate, so representative of the fate of thousands of Theresienstadt prisoners, lies in the fact that he believed that his show business activities within the camp would keep him alive : the “Karussel” as Cabaret of Life. He even agreed to direct a propaganda film for the Nazis about the camp – ” a city given to the Jews as a gift” – in return for a promise that he would be spared the gas chambers. Unaware that the Nazis had already deported entire orchestras to Auschwitz, Gerron was forced to beg for his life to be spared. In vain.
It is left to Roy Kift to close this deeply moving documentary by recounting Gerron’s final moments in Auschwitz: the fate of a big, big man who could have been huge, but who was reduced to skin and bone – and finally ashes – by the Nazi killing machine.
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