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 Laura Solari as Olga Feodorowna Will Quadflieg as Peter Aßmuss Marina von Ditmar as Irina Andrews Engelmann as Nikolai Bokscha Karl Haubenreißer as Jakob Frunse Hans Stiebner as inquiry judge Maria Bard as head of women's league Helene von Schmithberg as Tante (Aunt) Ljuba Albert Lippert as hotel director in Kovno (Kaunas) Lale Andersen as singer in bar in Gothenburg Wladimir Majer as GPU chief Nico Turoff as Frunse's assistant Theo Shall as saboteur with Bokscha Horst Winter as singer: 1st variation on "Limehouse Blues" Ivo Veit as Soviet diplomat in Helsinki Freddie Brocksieper with his jazz combo Gösta Richter
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 ().
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