April 18, 2024
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Director: N. Korean angle drew eyes to ‘Propaganda’

Film crew hadn’t predicted backlash from South Korean community

The film “Propaganda” originally surfaced on the web a year ago under the pretext that it was an intercepted North Korean film.

Its director of the film now describes its filming and promotion as a method acting experiment designed to draw attention to a difficult topic, and it worked: The video went viral and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times by a worldwide audience.

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