Red Orchestra  The legendary spy that Hitler could not silence    The RED ORCHESTRA screenplay is based on a true story. The main figure of this story is Leopold Trepper, A Polish Jew who was the founder and the leader of legendary Soviet spy network that was named Die Rote Kappelle or The Red Orchestra by the Germans. After years of militancy apprenticeship in Poland, Palestine and France, Trepper made the Soviet Union his home. As the threat of Nazism spread throughout Europe, he volunteered for the Red Army Intelligence Service. Using a commercial enterprise cover, Leopold began to supply vital information to the Soviet Union including a warning about the German plans to attack the Soviet Union. The central intelligence center and Stalin however ignored this warning. Eventually, the Germans broke up the network and turned it against the Soviets. After his capture, Trepper managed to inform Moscow about the German "Radio Game". The Soviets took advantage of this information to trick the Germans. This story is dedicated to the fighters of the Red Orchestra who managed to send some 1500 messages between May of 1940 and November 1942. Of Two Hundreds fighters who were arrested, One Hundred and Forty Three were executed, murdered or died in concentration camps. Only Sixty Five escaped arrest by the Gestapo.