EL MINISTRO DE PROPAGANDA

This daring fiction is several things: the portrayal of the father of fake news, a “making-of” of the Third Reich and a warning. Covering the key initiatives of the Nazi propaganda ministry from the zenith of Hitler’s power until his suicide, it shows the seductive power of the man who shaped the movement’s public image: Goebbels not only stirred up hatred by publishing diatribes but also on the big screen with his anti-Semitic films Jud Süß and The Eternal Jew, taking his totalitarian marketing campaign to its bitter end with his last scene in the bunker. German filmmaker Joachim A. Lang transports us into the terrifyingly fascinating perspective of the perpetrators to reveal their mechanisms of manipulation, demagogy and disinformation, which in turn help us understand those used by today’s extremist populism.