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Drawingonpreviouslyunpublishedinterviews,journals,familyfootageandpropagandafilms,ThePropagandisttrackstheriseandfalloftheDutchfilmmakerJanTeunissen,wholivedfrom1898to1975.<br/> ComingfromaverywealthybackgroundmeantTeunissenwasabletopursuehisaspirationsasafilmmakerearlyinlife.DuringtheSecondWorldWarhebecamethemostpowerfulmanintheDutchfilmindustry.AsheadoftheFilmDepartmentoftheSSandtheDutchNazipartytheNSB,hebecameknownas“thefilmczar”and“theDutchLeniRiefenstahl.”Afterthewar,Teunissenwasprosecutedandpunished.Heneverthelesscontinuedtoboastabouthisshrewdnessandhisconnectionswiththehigher-upsoftheNaziregime.<br/> Aportraitgraduallyemergesofamanandhismotivations.Atthesametime,thisdocumentaryaboutunbridledambitionandthemanipulativepoweroffilmquestionstheboundariesbetweendocumentaryandpropaganda.Itrevealshowpropagandistsgoabouttheirwork—howtheydisseminateimages,stories,disinformationandideology.