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 |
| Appearance | Göran Björkdahl, Mads Brügger |
| Production country | Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium |
| Domestic distribution | Danske Filminstitut, Camera Film |
| International sales | DR International Sales |
| 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 |
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| 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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