''The Red Terror'' () is a 1942
Nazi propaganda
Propaganda was a tool of the Nazi Party in Germany from its earliest days to the end of the regime in May 1945 at the end of World War II. As the party gained power, the scope and efficacy of its propaganda grew and permeated an increasing amou ...
film directed by
Karl Ritter.
Plot
Olga Feodorovna, a
Baltic German
Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), their resettlement in 1945 after the end ...
, 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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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 as Peter Aßmuss
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Marina von Ditmar as Irina
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Andrews Engelmann as Nikolai Bokscha
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Karl Haubenreißer 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
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Maria Bard as head of women's league
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Helene von Schmithberg as Tante (Aunt) Ljuba
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Albert Lippert as hotel director in Kovno (
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...
)
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Lale Andersen as singer in bar in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
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Wladimir Majer as GPU chief
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Nico Turoff as Frunse's assistant
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Theo Shall as saboteur with Bokscha
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Horst Winter as singer: 1st variation on "
Limehouse Blues"
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Ivo Veit as Soviet diplomat in
Helsinki
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Freddie Brocksieper with his jazz combo
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Gösta Richter
Production
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazism, Nazi politician and philologist who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief Propaganda in Nazi Germany, propagandist for the Nazi Party, and ...
ordered
UFA GmbH
UFA GmbH, shortened to UFA (), is a film and television production company that unites all production activities of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann in Germany. The original UFA was established as on December 18, 1917, as a direct response t ...
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
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Ge ...
. It cost 1.849 million ℛℳ () 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 () at the box office for a profit of 1.161 million ℛℳ ().
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
Films scored by Norbert Schultze
Films scored by Herbert Windt
Nazi-era films restricted in Germany
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