In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, leaving no known survivors. It is widely understood that because Hammarskjöld was advocating for Congo’s independence, against the wishes of European mining companies and other powerful entities, the "crash" was an assassination. With the case still unsolved 50-plus years later, Danish journalist, filmmaker and provocateur Mads Brügger leads an investigation to unearth the truth. Brügger, his Swedish private-investigator sidekick Göran Björkdahl and a host of co-conspirators tirelessly pursue a winding trail of clues, but they turn up more mysteries than revelations. Scores of false starts, dead ends and elusive interviews later, they begin to sniff out something more monumental than anything they had initially imagined.
| Original title | Cold Case Hammarskjöld |
|---|---|
| Danish title | Cold Case Hammarskjöld |
| Director | Mads Brügger |
| Screenplay | Mads Brügger |
| Producer | Peter Engel |
| Director of Photography | Tore Vollan |
| Editor | Nicolas Nørgaard Staffolani |
| Sound | Senjan Jansen |
| Composer | John Erik Kaada |
| Appearances | Göran Björkdahl, Mads Brügger |
| Production country | Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium |
| Production company | Wingman Media |
| Domestic distribution | Det Danske Filminstitut, Camera Film |
| International sales | DR International Sales / DR Byen / Emil Holms Kanal 20 / 0999 København C / t +45 3520 3040 / f +45 3520 3969 / drsales@dr.dk / www.drsales.dk |
| Comment | The film won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at Sundance and was nominated for the Dragon Award at Göteborg. Brügger is renowned for such films as ’The Red Chapel’ (2009), also winner at Sundance, and ’The Ambassador’ (2011). |
| DFI subsidy | Konsulentstøtte |
| Danish rating | Allowed for children over the age of 11 |
Awards and nominations
| Award | Year | Festival |
|---|---|---|
| Best Documentary Award | 2019 | Sao Paulo It's All True Int. Documentary FF 2019 |
| Camera Justitia Award | 2019 | Haag, Amnesty Int. Movies that Matter Festival 2019 |
| Best Director | 2019 | Prague, One World Human Rights Film Festival 2019 |
| World Cinema Documentary Directing Award | 2019 | Sundance Film Festival 2019 |
Festival screenings
| Festival | Festival date |
|---|---|
| Sofia International Film Festival | 2020-03-12 |
| New York, DOC NYC Film Festival | 2019-11-07 |
| Lübeck, Nordische Filmtage | 2019-10-29 |
| London Film Festival | 2019-10-02 |
| Zürich Film Festival | 2019-09-26 |
| Reykjavik Film Festival | 2019-09-26 |
| Bergen International Film festival | 2019-09-25 |
| Helsinki Film Festival - Love & Anarchy | 2019-09-19 |
| Dokufest Prizren | 2019-08-02 |
| Melbourne Film Festival | 2019-08-01 |
| Wellington - New Zealand Film Festival | 2019-07-18 |
| München International Film Festival | 2019-06-27 |
| SilverDocs AFI Documentary Festival | 2019-06-19 |
| Cape Town, Encounters South African Int. Documentary Film Festival | 2019-06-09 |
| Transilvania International Film Festival | 2019-05-31 |
| Tel Aviv Docaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival | 2019-05-23 |
| Seattle International Film Festival | 2019-05-16 |
| Docsbarcelona | 2019-05-15 |
| Warszawa, Against Gravity | 2019-05-10 |
| Toronto, Hot Docs Int. Documentary Festival | 2019-04-25 |
| Moscow Int. Film Festival | 2019-04-18 |
| Istanbul Int. Film Festival | 2019-04-05 |
| Sao Paulo It's All True Int. Documentary FF | 2019-04-04 |
| Leuven, Docville | 2019-03-27 |
| Haag, Amnesty Int. Movies that Matter Festival | 2019-03-22 |
| Prague, One World Human Rights Film Festival | 2019-03-06 |
| Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | 2019-03-01 |
| Göteborg International Film Festival | 2019-01-25 |
| Sundance Film Festival | 2019-01-24 |
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Reviews and articles
On the library you can find these articles and revies and other material about the film.
| Type | Source | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interview | Politiken-Fonden | Damm, Søren Jacobsen | 2019-02-08 |
| Interview | Berlingske Tidende | Damm, Søren Jacobsen | 2019-02-08 |
| Anmeldelse | Information | Skou Andersen, Lasse | 2019-02-07 |
| Artikel | Information | Monggaard, Christian | 2019-02-07 |
| Anmeldelse | Politiken-Fonden | Skotte Christensen, Kim | 2019-02-07 |
| Anmeldelse | Morgenavisen Jyllandsposten | Vandrup, Frederik Asschenfeldt | 2019-02-06 |
| Anmeldelse | BT | Brunstrøm, Thomas | 2019-02-05 |
| Anmeldelse | Berlingske Tidende | Blüdnikow, Bent | 2019-02-05 |
| Anmeldelse | Berlingske Tidende | Caruana, Stephanie | 2019-02-05 |
| Anmeldelse | Ekstra Bladet | Queitsch, Henrik | 2019-02-05 |
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