Cold Case Hammarskjöld

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Cold Case Hammarskjöld | Mads Brügger | Denmark, Norway, Sweden | 2019 | 128 min

In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, killing Hammarskjöld and most of the crew. 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. Scores of false starts, dead ends, and elusive interviews later, Brügger and his sidekick, Swedish Göran Björkdahl, begin to sniff out something more monumental than anything they’d initially imagined.

Awards

Winner, Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary, Sundance Film Festival