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The Ambassador
Ambassadøren
Director
Mads Brügger
Producers
Carsten Holst
Peter Engel
Cinematographer
Johan Stahl Winthereik
Editors
Carsten Søsted
Kimmo Taavila
Leif Axel Kjeldsen
Sound
Andreas Kongsgaard Mogensen
Hans Kock
Contact
RESTART label
Oliver Sertić
Katančićeva 3, 10000 Zagreb
[email protected]
2011
Denmark
93 min
Color
A white diplomat arrives in central Africa. He has bought an ambassadorship and claims to be business man on a diplomatic mission. Officially he’s there to start a factory that produces matches - this, to employ locals and teach how to make matches. Unofficially he is there to gain access to vast reserves of diamonds.
Born in 1972, is a Danish journalist, TV-host, author and filmmaker. He has written several books, worked for magazines and newspapers, produced award winning radio and TV programs. Brügger is renowned for his distinctive methods of performative journalism as he infiltrates various milieus.
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