Propaganda (2012)
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- 1h 36min
- Documentary, News
- 13 Jul 2012 (New Zealand)
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- 1 win.
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| Lloyd Blankfein | ... |
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| George Bush | ... |
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| George W. Bush | ... |
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Eugene Chang | ... |
Narrator / North Korean Professor
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| Joseph Goebbels | ... |
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| Paris Hilton | ... |
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| Adolf Hitler | ... |
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| Saddam Hussein | ... |
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| Michael Jackson | ... |
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| Angelina Jolie | ... |
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Susannah Kenton | ... |
English Voice-Over (voice)
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| Nicole Kidman | ... |
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| Jong-Il Kim | ... |
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Ken Lewis | ... |
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| Bernie Madoff | ... |
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| Benito Mussolini | ... |
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| Richard Nixon | ... |
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| Barack Obama | ... |
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Vikram Pandit | ... |
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| Brad Pitt | ... |
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| Elvis Presley | ... |
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| Katie Price | ... |
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| Ronald Reagan | ... |
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| Condoleezza Rice | ... |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... |
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| Quentin Tarantino | ... |
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Directed by
| Slavko Martinov | ||
Written by
| Slavko Martinov | ... | (writer) |
Produced by
| Mike Kelland | ... | co-producer |
| Thomas Mai | ... | associate producer |
| Slavko Martinov | ... | producer |
Music by
| Jody Lloyd | ||
Cinematography by
| Mike Kelland | ||
Editing by
| Mike Kelland | ||
Art Direction by
| Nick White | ||
Sound Department
| Ben Edwards | ... | sound mixer / supervising sound editor |
Music Department
| Jody Lloyd | ... | musical director |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Sideways Films (2013) (World-wide)
- YouTube (2012) (World-wide) (video)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
During a trip to Seoul, translator Sabine Program was approached by a couple that claimed to be North Korean dissidents. They handed her a DVD with the request to translate and disseminate it. The film features a North Korean scientist whose identity has been concealed, who uses hundreds of TV excerpts and archive footage to show what's wrong with Western visual and consumption culture. In the tradition of Michael Moore, the film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. In chapters with titles like "Rewriting History," "Complicity" and "The Cult of Celebrity," we are treated to a lineup of the most embarrassing occidental excesses and globalization, a point of view that remarkably resembles the recent Occupy movement: the "psychological warfare" at the hands of multinationals, shopping-obsessed consumers and the failure of democracy. Toward the end of this propaganda piece, the role of North Korea in all of this becomes clear: the country would like to offer itself as headquarters for the mounting fight against consumer slavery and greed worldwide. Written by IDFA |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | Before its first official appearance at a film festival (IDFA) in November 2012, it appeared on YouTube as part of a social experiment, where it was presented as true North Korean propaganda movie. This was revealed as a hoax when the movie was submitted to film festivals by the director. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021). See more » |