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




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


Laura Solari as Olga Feodorowna
Will Quadflieg as Peter Aßmuss
Marina von Ditmar as Irina
Andrews Engelmann as Nikolai Bokscha
Karl Haubenreißer as Jakob Frunse
Hans Stiebner as inquiry judge
Maria Bard as head of women's league
Helene von Schmithberg as Tante (Aunt) Ljuba
Albert Lippert as hotel director in Kovno (Kaunas)
Lale Andersen as singer in bar in Göteborg
Wladimir Majer as GPU chief
Nico Turoff as Frunse's assistant
Theo Shall as saboteur with Bokscha
Horst Winter as singer: 1st variation on "Limehouse Blues"
Ivo Veit as Soviet diplomat in Helsinki
Freddie Brocksieper with his jazz combo
Gösta Richter




Production


Joseph Goebbels ordered UFA GmbH to start production on four anti-Soviet films in 1941. Andrews Engelmann came up with the idea for The Red Terror and wrote the script with Karl Ritter and Felix Lützkendorf. Production started in December 1941. It was the first anti-Soviet film by the Nazis since the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It cost 1.849 million ℛℳ (equivalent to $8,000,000 in 2021) to produce.




Release


The film was approved by the censors on 17 July 1942, and premiered in Berlin on 14 August. It earned 3.5 million ℛℳ (equivalent to $15,000,000 in 2021) at the box office for a profit of 1.161 million ℛℳ (equivalent to $4,870,000 in 2021).




References






Works cited


Welch, David (1983). Propaganda and the German Cinema: 1933-1945. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860645204.




External links


The Red Terror at IMDb
The Red Terror is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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