Discovered via this excellent interview:
COVID1984 Across The Pond with Tony Gosling (56:43) ~ Jason Bermas, 2020-04-23 A+++
Cold Case Hammarskjöld Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Indie (2:24)
Cold Case Hammarskjöld - Official Trailer (1:04)
On Wikipedia:
" Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a documentary film by Danish film maker Mads Brügger. It depicts the death of Dag Hammarskjöld (a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations) in a plane crash in 1961 and proposes a theory that a white supremacist organization attempted to spread HIV/AIDS among black Africans. The film investigates the possibility that Hammarskjöld's plane, which crashed in Northern Rhodesia, was shot down by Belgian-British mercenary pilot Jan van Risseghem. After unsuccessful attempts to conclusively prove that theory, the film veers off to investigate the mysterious mercenary organization SAIMR, managing to contact two new witnesses that claim to have been involved with the organization. Parts of the movie are meta-cinematic, reflecting upon theatrical methods used (role playing, dressing up and employment of two African secretaries) and the true motivations of the filmmaker. "
Synopsis
" The film was entered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It then opened in US movie theaters on 16 August 2019. "
Critical response:
" Dr. 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 article labels this claim a conspiracy theory, despite previous reports during the South African government trial of Dr. Wouter Basson, head of the South African Defence Force's secret germ and biological warfare Project Coast, which revealed Basson's weaponization of HIV by freeze-drying. "
" 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. "
" Cold Case Hammarskjöld has been nominated for the Award of Justice 2020 by Cinema for Peace "
~ The full biased Wikipedia article.
It's worth noting that at Sundance it won "Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary", yet Wikipedia did not mention that important information that is hardly new. I just added it and we shall see if it remains.
About The Documentary:
" Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ~ Piraya Film "
Not Rated | 2h 8min | Documentary, Animation, History | 16 August 2019 (USA)
IMDb 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes 83% 79%
Facebook
Reviews:
Hollywood Reporter: 'Cold Case Hammarskjold': Film Review | Sundance 2019
Variety film review: ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’
" Mads Brügger's investigation of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld is a documentary that opens into a looking glass: a conspiracy that chills you. "
Washington Post: ‘This disturbing yet oddly delightful documentary about Dag Hammarskjold may blow your mind’
Plus:
Opening remarks + post-viewing Q&A : Mads Brügger's Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 Sundance Film Festival (9:49) ~ IONCINEMA, 2019-02-06. Note that the sound quality is terrible and may be a waste of time to anyone who's not a dedicated fan.
Watch It:
Amazon
Hulu
YouTube - Cold Case Hammarskjöld, also there's a link to "buy or rent" on the longer trailer above.
Torrent via 1337x.to, only 2 versions available, one is 480p and the other is BBC Storyville (which may be edited).
Torrent via Torrentz2.eu, sadly "7 results removed in compliance with EUCD / DMCA or due to abuse".
Torrent via RARBG.to, with 4 versions: 1080p WEBRip, 1080p AMZN WEBRip, 720p AMZN WEBRip, WEBRip.
More:
DuckDuckGo: Cold Case Hammarskjold
Thumbnail, a whimsical movie poster to be sure.
