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.
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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).
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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