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De Propagandist - Docupodium

Filmmaker and collaborator Jan Teunissen was the most powerful man in the Dutch film world during WWII. Whatever possesed him? What is the difference between documentary and propaganda?

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Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van Rialto Filmclub met als gastspreker deze maand Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

Director Luuk Bouwman, present at this screening, will be interviewed by Hanneke Groenteman after the film.

De Propagandist

The Hague filmmaker Jan Teunissen (1898-1975) has a special achievement to his name: his film Willem van Oranje (1934) was the first Dutch sound film. But his ambitions reached much further. When the Germans occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, he saw an opportunity to realise those ambitions: in August of that year, he joined the National Socialist Movement (NSB) and was soon the head of the NSB's film department; in 1942, the Dutch Kultuurkamer appointed him leader of the Film Guild. Teunissen, nicknamed ‘the film czar’, was the most powerful man in the Dutch film industry. After the war, he was charged and sentenced to prison. Released in 1948, he never expressed regret.

On the basis of previously unpublished interviews, diary fragments, family films and propaganda films, filmmaker Luuk Bouwman not only tells Teunissen's life story, he also addresses the question of where the boundaries lie between documentary and propaganda. How strong is the manipulative power of cinema?