Kurt Gerron's Karussell [videorecording] / Seventh Art Releasing ; TVentures ; in Koproduktion, Vera Vista, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Sender Freies Berlin ; producenten, Vera Lastuvkova, Thomas Mertens, Frank Roumen, Ilona Ziok ; ein Film von Ilona Ziok.

Other Title:

Karussell
Title on container and cassette : Karoussel

Publication:

Clarksburg, NJ : Alden Films, [200-?]

Format/Description:

Video
1 videocassette (63 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subjects:

Gerron, Kurt, 1897-1944.
Actors -- Germany -- Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography.
Terezín (Severočeský kraj, Czech Republic).
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Czech Republic.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic -- Personal narratives.

Form/Genre:

Documentary films.

Language:

In German, Czech, French, English, with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS - NTSC.

Summary:

"Karoussel, named for a cabaret in Theresienstadt that Kurt Gerron had created, shows life and fate intermeshed with the decadence of Weimar Germany along with the anti-semitism of pre-war Europe leading up to the Holocaust."--Container.

Participant:

Ute Lemper, Bente Kahan, Ursula Ofner, Ben Becker.
Narrator, Roy Kift.

Credits:

Cameraman, Jacob Blowul ...[et al.] ; editor, Christina Orrall ... [et al.]

Notes:

Originally prodused in 1999.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Contributor:

Ziok, Ilona. , Director
Lastuvkova, Vera. , Producer
Mertens, Thomas. , Producer
Roumen, Frank. , Producer
Kift, Roy. , Narrator
Lemper, Ute, 1963- , Performer
Kahan, Bente. , Performer
Ofner, Ursula. , Performer
Seventh Art Releasing (Firm) , Producer
Vera Vista (Firm) , Producer
TV Ventures (Firm) , Producer
Association relative à la télévision européenne. , Producer
Nederlands Filmmuseum. , Producer
Sender Freies Berlin. , Producer
Alden Films. , Distributor
Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

OCLC:

48505714

Web link:

The Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund Home Page

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