PRESS
A documentary that opens into a looking glass: a conspiracy that chills you.
“Cold Case Hammerskjöld” is a slow-building documentary mystery that sucks you in like a vortex. It offers several intertwined conspiracy theories, at least one of which, by the sternest reckoning, appears to be grounded in reality.
-VARIETY
Conspiracy Thriller Doc Is a True WTF
A Danish documentarian investigates a decades-old plane crash — and stumbles on to a potential sucker-punch of a revelation that may be too bad to be true.
-ROLLING STONE
An enthralling example of a documentary turning on itself
Editor Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani keeps a steady hand, allowing the film to go off the beaten path without ever getting hopelessly lost.
-THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
has a new film solved the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting?
Is the $450m Salvator Mundi a fake? This film – featuring tearful sycophants, sneering experts, dodgy dealers and a secretive superyacht – may finally settle the great da Vinci controversy
-THE GUARDIAN
Art, Money and Oligarchy
This documentary about the painting “Salvator Mundi” packs the fascination and wallop of an expertly executed fictional thriller.
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
'Every boy’s dream is to be James Bond': Inside North Korea with 'Mr James' and 'the Mole'
Danish film-maker Mads Brügger’s latest documentary is an absurdly brave look at Kim Jong-un’s regime that has all the intrigue of a spy thriller.
- THE GUARDIAN
“Even by Mads Brügger's standard, it's an insane story, with characters so colourful that if the mole had been fiction, you would probably say it was too unrealistic”
If you have enough money, you can buy both drugs and weapons from the North Korean government, it is documented in an incomparably entertaining documentary series.
-BERLINSKE
"AS AN INTELLIGENCE OPERATION, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE SEEN."
- Ola Kaldager, former leader of the Intelligence Service of Norway's group E 14
“A new documentary with a bizarre cast of characters claims to shed light on North Korea's efforts to evade international sanctions”
But could it all be true? One former UN official told the BBC he found it "highly credible".
-BBC
Sundance Winner Mads Brügger on North Korea Exposé ‘The Mole,’ Relying on ‘Fool’s Luck’
He defended his frequent use of hidden cameras, calling them “the ultimate weapon in journalism.” “It’s the most radical device you can deploy,” he said. “When we do use them, it’s when we are documenting criminal activity. Another rule is, would it be possible to film it in any other way? Most likely, the answer would be, ‘Forget about it’.”
-VARIETY
attribution and avarice on the trail of Salvator Mundi
The story of the hotly disputed discovery and sales of a purported new Leonardo da Vinci work doesn’t paint the art market in a flattering light.
-THE GUARDIAN