Mads Brugger
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Mads Brügger (born June 24, 1972 ) is a Danish investigative filmmaker, television journalist and screenwriter. Since November 2011 he has been head of programming at the radio station Radio24syv .
Life
He traveled to North Korea for his film The Red Chapel (2009), in which he posed as the manager of a comedy group . In his satirical documentary The Ambassador (2011), Brügger poses as a diplomat "Mr. Cortzens" who wants to start trading blood diamonds in the Central African Republic with his diplomatic passport and as Liberian honorary consul . The film received a Danish film award Robert .
For the film project Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019), Brügger and Andreas Rocksen researched the mysterious death of the United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961. At the 2019 Sundance Film Festival , it received the award for best director in the “World Cinema Documentary” category. They come across information about the clandestine mercenary militia South African Institute for Marine Research (SAIMR). The British Guardian reported on it in three articles. The Munich Film Festival is dedicating a retrospective to Brügger in 2019.
Filmography
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- 2001: Kleinrocks kabinet (TV series, screenplay)
- 2004: Tal med Gud (TV series, screenplay)
- 2004: Danes for Bush (television documentary series, director and screenplay)
- 2004: Jul med Gud (TV series, screenplay)
- 2006: Det røde kapel (TV documentary, director and screenplay)
- 2007: The 11th time (TV series, screenplay)
- 2007: Yallahrup Færgeby (TV series, screenplay)
- 2011: The Ambassador (documentary, direction and screenplay)
- 2017: The Great European Cigarette Mystery (Documentary, Screenplay)
- 2019: Cold Case Hammarskjöld (documentary, director and screenplay)
Awards
- 2010 : Prize of the jury at the Sundance Film Festival for Det røde kapel (best foreign documentary film)
- 2012: Robert for The Ambassador (Best Documentary)
- 2019 : Best director for a foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Web links
- Mads Brügger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- How to get a diplomatic passport for 135,000 dollars , interview with Bruges about his film The Ambassador in Standard from March 17, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gonzo Goes to Africa: Filmmaker / Journalist Mads Brugger Is' The Ambassador , International Documentary Association
- ^ Felix Wadewitz: Mixture of "Borat" and "The Economist": The man with the message ( Memento of April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Financial Times Deutschland (online) of April 26, 2012.
- ↑ The HIV / AIDS Conspiracy Laid Out In 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld' Is Going To Get A Lot Of People Talking , Uproxx , January 31, 2019
- ↑ The Hammarskjöld case solved? , Main-Post , January 23, 2019
- ↑ Emma Graham-Madison, Andreas Rocksen and Mads Brügger: RAF veteran 'admitted 1961 killing of UN secretary general' , The Guardian, January 12, 2019; Translation: Royal Air Force veteran admits killing UN Secretary-General in 1961
- ↑ Emma Graham-Madison, Andreas Rocksen and Mads Brügger: Coups and murder: the sinister world of apartheid's secret mercenaries , The Guardian, January 20, 2019; Translation: Coup and murder - the dark machinations of a secret mercenary force in the apartheid state.
- ↑ Emma Graham-Madison, Andreas Rocksen and Mads Brügger: Ex-mercenary claims South African group tried to spread Aids , The Guardian, January 12, 2019; Translation: Was AIDS consciously spread in southern Africa by a troop of sons?
- ^ Munich Film Festival: Retrospectives: Mads Brügger and Joon-ho Bong . Press release of May 27, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019.
- ^ Munich Film Festival: Mads Brügger retrospective . Article dated May 27, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruges, Mads |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cortzen, Mads |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish investigative filmmaker and television journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1972 |