Prisoner of Paradise (2002 film)

Prisoner of Paradise
DVD cover
Directed by	Malcolm Clarke Stuart Sender
Produced by	Karl-Eberhard Schäfer
Distributed by	Menemsha Entertainment (US) Odeon Films (Canada)
Release dates	December 11, 2002 (2002-12-11) (U.S.) March 7, 2003 (2003-03-07) (Canada)
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	Canada United States United Kingdom
Language	English

Prisoner of Paradise is a 2002 documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender. The film is an international co-production of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II. There, Gerron was ordered to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.^[1]

Prisoner of Paradise received mostly positive reviews and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 75th Academy Awards. Clarke won an award from the Directors Guild of Canada for his work on the film, and he and Sender were together nominated for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries at the 55th Directors Guild of America Awards.