Too many fans seem to be blown away

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Here we have a 24-minute (I read that it was much longer, but most of it is lost) black-and-white documentary from 1944 Germany. If you have a bit knowledge about history, you will know what was going on at that time. The writer and director is Kurt Gerron, a prolific filmmaker and actor in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. This is his last work and he was forced to do it by the Nazis. It takes place entirely at a concentration camp and depicts its inmates from start to finish. This film was the Nazi party's attempt to make it look as if life in concentration camps was not all bad for Jews. They are shown smiling and joking around. They play football in their free time or make music. It is such an unreal experience knowing that basically everybody in this video (including the children and Gerron himself) were murdered in gas chambers in the weeks after this was made. This film is possibly the best example of how National Socialists were adjusting the truth for their despicable intentions.Now, after I wrote this, you probably wonder why would I give it such a high rating. The answer is very simple. Even with all the tragedy surrounding it, this is a priceless piece of filmmaking and a historic document that is absolutely unique. Would less people have died if this hasn't been made? Absolutely not. These 24 minutes give us a unique insight into the mind of National Socialism and that is why I highly recommend watching this to everybody with an interest in 20th century history. But be aware: Don't do it if you cannot deal with the contents depicted in here. Finally, let me recommend you "Prisoner of Paradise" as well. I have not yet gotten a chance to watch it, but it has a pretty good rating on IMDb and this Oscar-nominated documentary from 2002 is about the life of Kurt Gerron and there is certainly a lot to learn from it. If you get your hands on it, give it a go.

The holocaust was not a myth, as some Neo-Nazis claim. The Third Reich's documents and the films of concentration camps made by the Nazis themselves serve as historical records, as do the reports of the survivors and the allied forces who rescued them. But this film made by the Nazis themselves in 1944 called "Theresienstadt – the Fuhrer gives a City to the Jews" is pure myth, made for propaganda purposes. The city, now located in the Czech Republic, was then actually an overcrowded transit camp for prisoners en route to the gas chambers of Auschwitz.Goebbels hired the Jewish actor/director Kurt Gerron, who had appeared in Marlene Dietrich's first famous movie, "Blue Angel" in 1930. He shot the film as instructed, depicting the place as a model Jewish settlement, or city of paradise. The overcrowding was temporarily curtailed by sending extra shipments of prisoners off to the gas chambers while the filming took place. It was made to look like a holiday village, a paradise for the Jews and foreigners. There were apparently ideal living conditions, play schools and gyms for the children, theatrical productions, arts and crafts, and as a climax to the film, there was a fine performance by a massed choir of Verdi's Requiem Mass. Even the Red Cross came and saw the town, and was impressed (and deceived by) the apparent excellent living conditions. As soon as the film was in the can, all the participants were shipped quietly away to be gassed at Auschwitz, including Kurt Gerron and his wife. A sad story that turns the stomach, that such inhumanity could be inflicted on millions of innocent people, not only Jews, but just as many others, Germans, foreigners and political dissidents alike. What remains of the movie is a tragic and ironic record of the Nazis' malevolence, and the circumstances of its making should never be forgotten.

I've just recently seen on a cable tv channel (yes, there is still intelligent life out there) a documentary about the german(and unfortunately for him also jewish)actor and director Kurt Gerron. His life's history impressed me so much that I couldn't help going back to the Holocaust and the open wounds it has left all across Europe even today. "Theresienstadt" (a concentration camp by any other name in what is now the Czech Republic) was a Faust-like bargain. Gerron hadn't directed a film in seven years - since the dutch "Three Wishes". He achieved the impossible portraying a concentration camp that could pass for a normal and much improved jewish ghetto. Some of his inmates proscribed him for it. Others, who have survived, aren't entirely sure they would have done different if faced with the prospect of immediate death for themselves and their families. In any case, the "cast" (mostly children) of this surreal exercise were transported to Auschwitz shortly after completion of the film. As were Kurt Gerron and his family. They were murdered on arrival. This has got to be, with the benefit of hindsight, one of the most disturbing pieces of film ever shot. And quite impossibly to vote for on a scale of 1 to 10. It is still too soon, too fresh, utterly unpardonable.

This Movie is a bad movie of Propaganda , full with lies . It should show the lives of the jews in the KZ's - Konzentrationslagern / Concentraition-Camps ) and if you ever seen a KZ , espspecially Theresienenstadt , you would see the cruel actions of the Nazis.