Details
Directed by: Luuk Bouwman
Runtime: 1h 48min
Certificate: PG
Topics:
History & Archive
Last Screened:
Thu 4th Dec 2025
An engrossing study of the rise and fall of Jan Teunissen, the Dutch filmmaker who became a leading Nazi propaganda-maker during the occupation of Holland.
Teunissen, nicknamed the ‘Film Tsar’ and the ‘Dutch Leni Riefenstahl’, was a wealthy and well-known filmmaker before the war. What drove him to become part of the Nazi regime?
A portrait gradually emerges of a man and his motivations, of unbridled ambition and the manipulative power of film. Luuk Bouwman’s film deep dives into this lesser-known history while remaining acutely relevant to today, laying bare the workings of propagandists – how they disseminate images, narratives, disinformation and ideology.