Cold Case Hammarskjöld

country

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium

Director

Mads Brügger

Year

2019

Run time

150 min

Awards/Main Selection

Sundance 2019 World Cinema Documentary Competition - Directing Award, London 2019 Documentary Competition

Genre

Documentary

It’s midnight. Rhodesia’s jungle is dressed in a steaming, reeking black. A propeller is heard in the distance, bearing down upon us. Many years later, stories are still told about Belgian mercenaries creeping around in the dark that night. In the plane is UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and his entourage of fifteen persons, and in a few seconds, they will not exist anymore. From this moment, you can draw a direct line to the Congolese civil war, Mobutu’s regime, the ongoing and accelerating exploitation of Africa and the total post-colonial nightmare as we know it today – all this due to the single incident taking place right now.