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Metin Akpinar, Kemal Sunal, Meltem Cumbul, Rafat El Roman, Ali Sunal ... see more see more... , Meral Orhonsay , Nazmiye Erol , C.R. Johnson , Candide Thovex , J.P. Auclair , J.R. Cusson , Jon Olsson , Shane Szocs

Turkey's most popular comedians, Kemal Sunal and Metin Akpinar, star in this darkly surreal comedy set in a sleepy village in the country's desert southeast in 1948. Sunal and Akpinar are close friend... read more read more...s until Sunal gets appointed the new customs director. One day, Akpinar wakes up to discover that a barbed-wire fence has been strung through the center of the town, and he and his family are on the wrong side of the divide. He is now an inhabitant of an unspecified foreign nation. Meanwhile, the dull-witted Sunal struts around in his military uniform, getting drunk on his new-found power. Propaganda was screened at the 1999 Istanbul Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 56 min.

Directed by: Johnny DeCesare, Sinan Cetin

Release Date: October 14, 1999

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DVD Release Date: September 17, 2002

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  • What was the Showtime movie--that starred Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Neve Campbell, Ana Gasteyer, Steven Weber, Amy Spanger, and Alan Cumming--that was a musical parody of the 1939 Propaganda movie of the same name?  Answer »
  • The imaginary character Rollo Tomasi in L.A. Confidential was actually based on a propaganda character used in schools to warn children about the dangers of talking to strangers.  Answer »
  • A young Elizabeth Taylor appears as one of the party girls in the anti-marijuana propaganda film Reefer Madness.  Answer »
  • Commissioned by the Nazi Party during world war 2, this German film is widely considered to be the best propaganda piece of all time.  Answer »

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