Malcolm Clarke

Shot on location, Academy Award Nominee "Prisoner of Paradise" follows Kurt Gerron's journey as he was captured and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, where he was ordered to write and direct a pro-Nazi propaganda film.

Prisoner of Paradise -- Nazis force actor and filmmaker Kurt Gerron, incarcerated in a concentration camp, to make a propaganda movie.

Malcolm Clarke (You Don't Have to Die) and Stuart Sender directed this documentary feature about one of the leading theatrical figures in 1930s Berlin, Kurt Gerron. A popular actor, director and cabaret performer, Gerron, a German Jew, was later forced to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film while being held prisoner in a concentration camp.

Nazis force actor and filmmaker Kurt Gerron, incarcerated in a concentration camp, to make a propaganda movie.

Nazis force actor and filmmaker Kurt Gerron, incarcerated in a concentration camp, to make a propaganda movie.

A troubled young man journeys to meet the infamous recluse and critically acclaimed author J.D. Salinger.

A troubled young man journeys to meet the infamous recluse and critically acclaimed author J.D. Salinger.

Übergeek DJ Qualls (Neil Lawrence) treks to New Hampshire -- as part of a school writing assignment -- to query reclusive author J.D. Salinger about what might have happened to &NFi;The Catcher in the Rye&NFi_;'s Holden Caulfield. Will DJ get the answers he needs? Along for the ride is T.J. (Rachel Blanchard), who has long dreamed of seeing New York City. Teen angst is the real star of this meditation on the fate of an immortal literary character.