The Red Terror (film)

The Red Terror
GPU
Directed by Karl Ritter
Produced by Karl Ritter
Written by Andrews Engelmann
Felix Lützkendorf
Karl Ritter
Starring See below
Music by Norbert Schultze
Herbert Windt
Cinematography Igor Oberberg
Edited by Conrad von Molo
Release dates
1942
Running time
99 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

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

Released after the breakdown of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it is noteworthy for the crude, heavy-handed depiction of Communists.[2]

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. "New York Times: G.P.U. (1942)". NY Times. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  2. Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema pp 44-5 ISBN 0-02-570230-0

External links


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