The Red Terror is a 1942 Nazi propaganda film directed by Karl Ritter.

Plot

Olga Feodorovna, a Baltic German, 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

Production

Joseph Goebbels ordered UFA GmbH 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. 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.