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.

The cost, though, was huge for one participant, as the actor portraying the film’s North Korean narrator, a South Korean native currently living in New Zealand, has been effectively blacklisted in his community.

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