De propagandist - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
Drawing on previously unpublished interviews, journals, family footage, and propaganda films, The Propagandist traces the rise and fall of Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen, who lived from 1898 to 1975.
Born into immense wealth, Teunissen had the means to pursue his ambitions as a filmmaker from an early age. During the Second World War, he rose to become the most powerful figure in the Dutch film industry. As head of the Film Department of both the SS and the Dutch Nazi party, the NSB, he earned the nicknames “the film czar” and “the Dutch Leni Riefenstahl.” After the war, Teunissen was prosecuted and punished, yet he continued to boast of his cunning and his close ties to the upper echelons of the Nazi regime.
What gradually emerges is a portrait of a man—and of his motivations. At the same time, this documentary about unbridled ambition and the manipulative power of film blurs the line between documentary and propaganda. It lays bare the techniques of propagandists: how they shape narratives, spread disinformation, and use imagery to embed ideology.
- 19:00
Kies tijdstip
- filmspecial
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
Drawing on previously unpublished interviews, journals, family footage, and propaganda films, The Propagandist traces the rise and fall of Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen, who lived from 1898 to 1975.
Born into immense wealth, Teunissen had the means to pursue his ambitions as a filmmaker from an early age. During the Second World War, he rose to become the most powerful figure in the Dutch film industry. As head of the Film Department of both the SS and the Dutch Nazi party, the NSB, he earned the nicknames “the film czar” and “the Dutch Leni Riefenstahl.” After the war, Teunissen was prosecuted and punished, yet he continued to boast of his cunning and his close ties to the upper echelons of the Nazi regime.
What gradually emerges is a portrait of a man—and of his motivations. At the same time, this documentary about unbridled ambition and the manipulative power of film blurs the line between documentary and propaganda. It lays bare the techniques of propagandists: how they shape narratives, spread disinformation, and use imagery to embed ideology.
