Thursday, 3 March 2022

GPU (1942)


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Directed by: Karl Ritter

Written by: Andrews Engelmann, Felix Lützkendorf and Karl Ritter

Produced by: Karl Ritter

Cinematography: Igor Oberberg

Edited by: Conrad von Molo

Music by: Norbert Schultze and Herbert Windt

Production company: UFA

Distributed by: Deutsche Filmvertriebs

Release date: 14 August 1942

Running time: 99 minutes

Country: Germany

Language: German

 

Cast:

 

Laura Solari: Olga Feodorowna

Will Quadflieg: Peter Aßmuss

Marina von Ditmar: Irina

Andrews Engelmann: Nikolai Bokscha

Karl Haubenreißer: Jakob Frunse

Hans Stiebner: inquiry judge

Maria Bard: head of women’s league

Helene von Schmithberg: Tante (Aunt) Ljuba

Albert Lippert: hotel director in Kovno (Kaunas)

Lale Andersen: singer in bar in Gothenburg

Wladimir Majer: GPU chief

Nico Turoff: Frunse‘s assistant

Theo Shall: saboteur with Bokscha

Horst Winter: singer: 1st variation on “Limehouse Blues”

Ivo Veit: Soviet diplomat in Helsinki

Freddie Brocksieper with his jazz combo

Gösta Richter

 

Plot

 

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.

 

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