Cold Case Hammarskjöld
7.5
2019
2 hr 9 min
History
, Documentary
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case looking for a definitive closure.
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- Cast：
- Mads Brügger
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It is a performances centric movie
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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
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The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
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Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
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