Produced shortly after war broke out
with the Soviet Union, the melodrama GPU draws its title from the initials for
“Government Political Administration,” the Soviet state police. This dreaded
organization enforced repressive laws, crushed dissent and combated the
influence abroad of anti-Communist Russian émigrés. Invading the USSR in 1941,
German leaders anticipated the GPU would mobilize Marxists in German-occupied Europe to sabotage the war
effort. This film exposes GPU methods as criminal and subversive, of service
purely to the Kremlin and detrimental to other lands. Wartime Germany’s only
directly anti-Soviet feature film, GPU dramatizes the ordeal of a Baltic couple
coerced into spying for Russia. The lovers find unexpected help from a female
Soviet agent secretly working to avenge her family’s murder by the GPU years
before. Action, suspense and romance combine to make GPU among the Third
Reich’s most acclaimed motion pictures, with elements later incorporated into
post-war Hollywood spy thrillers. Directed by Karl Ritter; music by Herbert
Windt; featuring Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, and Andrews Engelman. Germany,
1942, B&W, 81 minutes, German dialogue English subtitles.
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