The Ambassador

The Ambassador
dir. Mads Brügger/Denmark/2011/93 min.
place
date
time
Atlantic, sala B
2024-05-15
20:30

Danish journalist and satirist Mads Brügger travels to the heart of Africa to show the horrifying face of corruption that exists in that part of the world. A strange, enigmatic and decadent white diplomat arrives in central Africa, looking like a mixture of Henry Stanley and Karl Lagerfeld. He has recently bought an ambassadorship and claims to be a do-good rich business man, who has come to spearhead a diplomatic mission. Officially he is there to start a factory that produces matches – this, to employ locals and teach how to make this simple piece of fire-making equipment. Unofficially he is really there to gain access to vast reserves of diamonds. “The Ambassador” is a genre-breaking, tragic comedy about the bizarre world of African diplomacy.

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  • projection time:
    93 min.
  • country/year:
    Denmark /2011
  • director:
    Mads Brügger
  • pictures:
    Johan Stahl Winthereik
  • editor:
    Leif Axel Kjeldsen, Carsten Søsted, Kimmo Taavila
  • production:
    Peter Engle, Carsten Hols / Zentropa
  • festivals and awards:
    2011 – IDFA Amsterdam, 2012 – Sundance FF

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