Cold Case Hammarskjöld
2019
2h 9min
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.
Storyline
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.
Released
February 2019
Runtime
2h 9min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
English
Production
Piraya Film, Laika Film & Television, Associate Directors, Against Gravity, BBC Storyville, DR, GEO Television, SVT, The Bertha Foundation, Wingman Media, RÚV, SH Channel 8, SVT, YLE, RTBF, VRT, VPRO
Cast
Mads Brügger
Self - Investigator
Clarinah Mfengu
Self - Secretary
Saphir Wenzi Mabanza
Self - Secretary
Göran Björkdahl
Self - Investigator
Hilding Björkdahl
Self - Göran's Father
Charles Southall
Self - Former NSA Agent
Norman Kenward
Self - Photographer
Jan Beuckels
Self - R. Beuckels' Nephew
Lydia Sterkendries
Self - R. Beuckels' Friend
Hans Corell
Self - Diplomat
Stephen Sedley
Self - Lawyer
De Wet Potgieter
Self - Journalist
Diane Maxwell
Self - K. Maxwell's Widow (voice)
René Goor
Self - Former SAIMR Member
Claude Newbury
Self - Medical Doctor
Tienie Groenewald
Self - Former SADF Chief
Pierre Coppens
Self - Ex-Paratrooper
Marion van Risseghem
Self - J. van Risseghem's Widow
Clive Jansen van Vuuren
Self - Former SAIMR Member
Robert Cedars
Self - Former SAIMR Member (voice)
Alexander Jones
Self - Former SAIMR Member
Karl Feil
Self - D. Feil's Brother
Julian Olgilvie Thompson
Self (voice)
Dag Hammarskjöld
Self - Diplomat (archive footage)
Dagmar Feil
Self - SAIMR Member (archive footage)
Desmond Tutu
Self - Anglican Bishop (archive footage)
Dumisa Ntsebeza
Self - Political Activist (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self - Politician (archive footage)
U Thant
Self - Diplomat (archive footage)
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