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Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case looking for a definitive closure.
Mads Brügger
Mads Brügger
Casts & Crew
Mads Brügger
Clarinah Mfengu
Saphir Wenzi Mabanza
Göran Björkdahl
Hilding Björkdahl
Charles Southall
Norman Kenward
Jan Beuckels
Lydia Sterkendries
Hans Corell
Stephen Sedley
De Wet Potgieter
Diane Maxwell
René Goor
Claude Newbury
Tienie Groenewald
Pierre Coppens
Marion van Risseghem
Clive Jansen van Vuuren
Robert Cedars
Alexander Jones
Karl Feil
Julian Olgilvie Thompson
Dag Hammarskjöld
Dagmar Feil
Desmond Tutu
Dumisa Ntsebeza
John F. Kennedy
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe
Nikita Khrushchev
U Thant
Also Directed by Mads Brügger
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A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
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This darkly comic, genre-bending piece of gonzo journalism from international provocateur Mads Brügger (filmmaker of Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Red Chapel) rips the corroded lid off the global scheme of political corruption and exploitation happening in one of the most dangerous places on the planet: the Central African Republic. Armed with a phalanx of hidden cameras, black-market diplomatic credentials and a bleeding-edge wit, Brügger transforms himself into an outlandish caricature of a European-African consul. As he immerses himself in the life-threatening underworld of nefarious bureaucrats, Brügger encounters blood diamond smuggling, bribery, and even murder -- while somehow managing to crack amazing razor-sharp barbs at every step along the way. From each absurdly terrifying/hilarious situation to the next, The Ambassador is a one-of-a-kind excursion from the man whom The Huffington Post has called “the most provocative filmmaker in the world.”