Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Cold Case Hammarskjöld | |
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Directed by | Mads Brügger |
Written by | Mads Brügger |
Produced by | Nadja Nørgaard Kristensen |
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Cinematography | Tore Vollan |
Edited by | Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani |
Music by | John Erik Kaada |
Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures (USA) |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
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Box office | $104,965[1] |
Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a 2019
Synopsis
The film moves to South Africa, where in 1998 the
The final part of the film brings forward two new witnesses, claimed to be former SAIMR members or close relatives. These witnesses allege that SAIMR existed, and was a major clandestine mercenary organization. They claim SAIMR served the interests of white supremacy in Africa, and that it ran operations to administer the HIV virus to black people in South Africa, Mozambique, and other countries through the fake clinics, with the goal of depleting the black population to a point where whites were in the majority. Brügger and Björkdahl recover the second part of the autobiography of Maxwell, which alleges the involvement of SAIMR in the Hammarskjöld assassination. The first witness claims the playing card depicted in one of the photos of Hammarskjöld's corpse is a covert signal of CIA involvement.
Release
The film was entered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where it won "Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary". It then opened in US movie theaters on 16 August 2019.[2][3]
Reception
Salim Abdool Karim claimed in an article published in The New York Times that spreading the HIV virus would not have been technically feasible at the time.[4] The New York Times article also stated that the filmmakers' notes indicated that the man depicted as the whistleblower of the "virus spreading," Alex Jones, a former SAIMR militia member, was not aware of it until asked by the filmmakers, and that his testimony evolved over the course of their correspondence.[4]
In July 2019, Cold Case Hammarskjöld was nominated for a European Parliament Lux Prize, the third time in the Prize's history that a documentary is among the three finalists.[5]
References
- ^ "Cold Case Hammarskjöld". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ Mikkonen, Minttu (13 January 2019). "Tuore dokumentti väittää ratkaisseensa yhden kylmän sodan ajan suurimmista arvoituksista: Palkkasoturi tunnusti ampuneensa alas YK:n pääsihteerin Dag Hammarskjöldin" ['A new documentary claims one of the biggest puzzles of the Cold War era has been solved: A mercenary confessed to having shot down UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld']. Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ "Cold Case Hammarskjöld". sundance.org. Sundance Institute. Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ a b Apuzzo, Matt (27 January 2019). "Quest to Solve Assassination Mystery Revives an AIDS Conspiracy Theory". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
- ^ "LUX Prize: the finalists competing for Parliament's film award". European Parliament. 23 July 2019. Archived from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2020.