The Red Terror
GPU
Directed byKarl Ritter
Written by
Produced byKarl Ritter
StarringSee below
CinematographyIgor Oberberg
Edited byConrad von Molo
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date
  • 14 August 1942 (1942-08-14)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Red Terror (German: GPU) is a 1942 Nazi propaganda[1] film directed by Karl Ritter.[2]

Released after the breakdown of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it is noteworthy for its depiction of Communists.[3]

Plot

Olga Feodorovna, a Baltic German, saw her family massacred by the GPU. She joins it in order to track down the murderers. After avenging the deaths, she commits suicide.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda film - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  2. ^ "New York Times: G.P.U. (1942)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-11-04. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  3. ^ Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema pp 44–45 ISBN 978-0-02-570230-1