G.P.U.

1942
1h 39m

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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 sche... Read allOlga, 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.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.

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G.P.U. was the short, better known acronym of the Obedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (Joint State Political Directorate) of the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), since February 6, 1922, to 1934. Legally a police force, it became known by its brutal methods of investigation and interrogation outside law boundaries.

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Featured in Die UFA (1992)

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Heavy handed Nazi propaganda

When this film was released the Nazis and the Soviets were at war rather than allies.So clearly the Nazis had to justify their invasion of Russia by showing how cruel,and deceitful and merciless were the Russians.the problem with this film is that it is rather ponderous and at 97 minutes far too long to hold peoples attention.As is usual in this type of film the Russians,or however is the enemy is shown in the most unflattering light possible and the Nazis in an extremely heroic light.The bombing of Rotterdam being shown as a heroic venture to free the captives of the Russians rather than the reality which was the bombing and invasion of a hitherto neutral country.Such things as truth never bothered the Nazis.