G.P.U. (1942)





Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Meanwhile a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the evil communists. Very obviously a propaganda film from wartime Nazi Germany.


Vintage magazines


Filmwelt 31/32, 19. August 1942
Filmwelt 33/34, 2. September 1942
Filmwelt 35/36, 16. September 1942


Film programs


Das Programm von heute nr. 1837
Illustrierter Film-Kurier Berlin nr. 3286


Articles on G.P.U.


Rainer Rother, Grauen Panik Untergang, Karl Ritters Propagandafilm "GPU", in: Hans-Michael Bock und Michael Töteberg (Hg.), Das Ufa-Buch, Frankfurt am Main, 1992