COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD Truth and Justice

Employing his distinctive investigative style once again to masterful effect, the brilliant Danish documentary filmmaker Mads Brügger (THE RED CHAPEL, THE AMBASSADOR) turns his attention to the unsolved 1961 plane crash that killed UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. Was the crash an accident or was the plane shot down as payback for Hammarskjöld’s advocacy on behalf of newly decolonized African nations? Brügger follows a story that grows increasingly bizarre. Soon, he is digging up an airfield in Zambia and confronting members of a secret society of South African mercenaries. Whether the mystery is eventually “solved” is beside the point. In the mad, mad world of Mads Brügger, it’s the journey that counts, and in this case, it’s a wild ride indeed. Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Prize for Directing.