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Cold Case Hammarskjöld | In theaters Friday, Aug. 16
Mads Brügger's 2011 documentary The Ambassador redefined the genre as the filmmaker's exposé on the blood diamond trade in Africa ventured into Fitzcarraldo territory when Brügger positioned himself in the middle of the drama. Brügger's latest project, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, looks to unveil the disputed death of Swedish economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who perished in a 1961 plane crash in East Africa. At the time of the accident, Hammarskjöld's tenure as the Secretary-General of the United Nations was creating the closest thing to a sense of world peace that we might ever imagine. Along with private investigator Göran Björkdahl, Brügger apparently has pieced together a tale that points to a system of conspiracies that are so ghastly, you might not be able to return to a normal life afterward. — Arno
Mads Brügger's 2011 documentary The Ambassador redefined the genre as the filmmaker's exposé on the blood diamond trade in Africa ventured into Fitzcarraldo territory when Brügger positioned himself in the middle of the drama. Brügger's latest project, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, looks to unveil the disputed death of Swedish economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who perished in a 1961 plane crash in East Africa. At the time of the accident, Hammarskjöld's tenure as the Secretary-General of the United Nations was creating the closest thing to a sense of world peace that we might ever imagine. Along with private investigator Göran Björkdahl, Brügger apparently has pieced together a tale that points to a system of conspiracies that are so ghastly, you might not be able to return to a normal life afterward. — Arno
PeopleMads Brügger, Göran Björkdahl
TitlesCold Case Hammarskjöld
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