COLD CASE: HAMMARSKJÖLD

By Kim CHRISTIANSEN

DR SALES - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2019
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Zurich FF 2019
International Documentary Film Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 119 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kim CHRISTIANSEN
    • Synopsis
    • In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, leaving no known survivors. It’s understood that because Hammarskjöld was, at the time, 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 (The Red Chapel, The Ambassador) leads us down an investigative rabbit hole to unearth the truth. He, his Swedish private-investigator sidekick, 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’d initially imagined.