DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, BELGIUM

Direction: Mads Brügger
Screenplay: Mads Brügger
Cinematography: Tore Vollan
Editing: Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani
Music: Kaada
Cast: Mads Brügger, Göran Björkdahl
Producers: Peter Engel, Bjarte Mørner Tveit, Andreas Rocksén
Production: Wingman Media ApS, Piraya Film AS, Laika Film & Television AB

SYNOPSIS
Cold Case Hammarskjöld revisits the unexplained death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld on 18 September 1961: Hammarskjöld’s plane crashed in mysterious circumstances just as he was preparing to meet Moïse Tshombe, the leader of the rebel province of Katanga, which had just declared independence from the Congo. Hammarskjöld was hoping to resolve a conflict in which massive interests were at stake by convincing Katanga — which was backed at the time by Union Minière, a powerful Belgian company with considerable economic interests in Africa — to rejoin the independent Congo. More than half a century later, Danish journalist and director Mads Brügger decided to look into the case with the help of Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl. Mads Brügger’s film covers all the stages in the investigation…

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“We’ve since facilitated a meeting between UN representatives who’d been following the case and Alexander Jones, who has now left South Africa. The meeting took place in Stockholm a few weeks ago. Jones told them what he knew about SAIMR and Hammarskjöld. This will lead to a new report which will probably be published this summer, and it would seem that the UN are likely to back the theory that Hammarskjöld was killed as part of a conspiracy. The problem is that the main actors in the affair – Great Britain and South Africa – are reluctant to disclose the documents in their possession relating to Hammarskjöld’s death. It still hasn’t been explained how these documents disappeared from the South African archives…”

MAIN AWARDS
2019 Sundance – World Cinema / Documentary: Directing Award
2019 Greenwich IFF – Documentary Feature Film: Best Documentary
2019 It’s All True Int. Documentary FF – International Competition: Best Feature or Medium-Length Documentary
2019 Lighthouse IFF – Best Documentary: Jury Award
2019 One World Int. Human Rights Documentary FF – International Competition Program: Best Director