''The Red Terror'' (german: GPU) is a 1942
Nazi propaganda
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation o ...
film directed by
Karl Ritter.
Released after the breakdown of the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
, long_name = Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
, image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H27337, Moskau, Stalin und Ribbentrop im Kreml.jpg
, image_width = 200
, caption = Stalin and Ribbentrop shaking ...
, it is noteworthy for its depiction of Communists.
Erwin Leiser
Erwin Leiser (May 16, 1923 – August 22, 1996) was a German-born Jew and director, writer, and actor.
Born and raised in Berlin, he fled to Sweden at the age of 15 to escape the Nazi Party. He graduated from the University of Lund and worked as a ...
, ''Nazi Cinema'' pp 44–45
Plot
Olga Feodorovna, a
Baltic German
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, saw her family massacred by the
GPU
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobi ...
. She joins it in order to track down the murderers. After avenging the deaths, she commits suicide.
Cast
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Laura Solari
Laura Solari ( Camaur; 5 January 1913 – 13 September 1984) was an Italian film actress.
Early and personal life
Laura Camaur was born on 5 January 1913, in Trieste, then part of Austria-Hungary. She was the daughter of sculptor and arti ...
as Olga Feodorowna
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Will Quadflieg
Friedrich Wilhelm "Will" Quadflieg (; 15 September 1914 – 27 November 2003) was a German actor from Oberhausen. He was the father of actor Christian Quadflieg. He is considered one of Germany's best post-war actors. One of his most widely rec ...
as Peter Aßmuss
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Marina von Ditmar
Marina von Ditmar (30 October 1914 – 3 September 2014) was a German film actress born in Saint Petersburg of Baltic German descent.
After moving to Germany she studied acting under Lucie Höflich and Ilka Grüning. Her first roles were performe ...
as Irina
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Andrews Engelmann
Andrews Engelmann (23 March 1901 – 25 February 1992) was a Russian-born German actor. He worked primarily in Germany, where he specialised in playing Russian roles, but also appeared in a number of British films during his career. He was born as ...
as Nikolai Bokscha
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Karl Haubenreißer Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austria ...
as Jakob Frunse
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Hans Stiebner
Hans Stiebner (19 November 1898 – 27 March 1958) was a German actor.
Steibner was born in Vetschau, Germany as Hans Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Paul Stiebner. He died in 1958 in Baden-Baden, West Germany.
Selected filmography
* '' The Grand Duk ...
as inquiry judge
*
Maria Bard
Maria Bard (7 July 1900 – April 1944) was a German stage actress, who made a handful of films in the silent era for Rimax, her first husband Wilhelm Graaff's company.
By 1930, her marriage with Graaff was over, and she appeared with Werner K ...
as head of women's league
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Helene von Schmithberg as Tante (Aunt) Ljuba
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Albert Lippert
Albert Lippert (1901-1978) was a German stage, television and film actor. He was the manager of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus between 1948 and 1955.
Selected filmography
* '' Cruiser Emden'' (1932)
* '' A Prussian Love Story'' (1938)
* '' Liberat ...
as hotel director in Kovno (
Kaunas
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)
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Lale Andersen
Lale Andersen (23 March 1905 – 29 August 1972) was a German chanson singer-songwriter and actress born in Lehe (now part of Bremerhaven). She is best known for her interpretation of the song ''Lili Marleen'' in 1939, which by 1941 transcend ...
as singer in bar in
Göteborg
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Wladimir Majer as GPU chief
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Nico Turoff
Nico Turoff (Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and ...
as Frunse's assistant
*
Theo Shall
Theo Shall (1896–1955) was a German stage and film actor.Goble p. 330 He was born in Metz when it was part of the German Empire but left following its occupation by France following the First World War.
Selected filmography
* ''Das Spielzeug v ...
as saboteur with Bokscha
*
Horst Winter
Harry Winter (24 September 1914 - 3 December 2001), born Horst Winter, was a German-Austrian singer, musician and band director.
Biography
Born in Beuthen, Upper Silesia (present-day Bytom, Poland), his family moved to Berlin after the Silesian Up ...
as singer: 1st variation on "
Limehouse Blues"
*
Ivo Veit as Soviet diplomat in
Helsinki
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Freddie Brocksieper Fritz "Freddie" Brocksieper (August 24, 1912 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire – January 17, 1990) was a German jazz-musician, drummer, and bandleader.
Early life
Brocksieper was born in Constantinople. At a young age in 1917, he observed militar ...
with his jazz combo
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Gösta Richter
References
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1942 films
1940s spy drama films
German spy drama films
Films of Nazi Germany
1940s German-language films
German black-and-white films
Nazi propaganda films
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in 1940
Films set in Helsinki
Films set in the Netherlands
Films set in Sweden
Films about the Soviet Union in the Stalin era
Films directed by Karl Ritter
UFA GmbH films
1942 drama films
Anti-communism in Germany
1940s German films
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