Aaron Vaccaro

Wonderful Lie tells the story of Kurt Gerron, a German Jewish actor, writer, director who was arrested by the Nazis during World War II and sent to the Hungarian ghetto, Theresienstadt. While there, Gerron was given a choice by the SS– write and direct a propaganda film showing life in the ghetto as an idyllic utopia for the Jews, or die. Despite weaponizing his creative gifts for evil, Gerron used the production of the film as a way to help his fellow prisoners escape their hellish reality and salvage a sliver of the happiness they were tasked with depicting in this facade of a film.