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The Red Terror (film)

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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
Budget1.849 million ℛℳ
Box office3.5 million ℛℳ

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

Plot

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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

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Production

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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.[3] It was the first anti-Soviet film by the Nazis since the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.[4] It cost 1.849 million ℛℳ (equivalent to $8,000,000 in 2021) to produce.[5]

Release

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The film was approved by the censors on 17 July 1942, and premiered in Berlin on 14 August.[6] 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).[5]

References

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  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. ^ Welch 1983, p. 214.
  4. ^ Welch 1983, p. 212.
  5. ^ a b Welch 1983, p. 270.
  6. ^ Welch 1983, pp. 214, 280.

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