True crime docs are all the rage nowadays. Thanks to streaming services, documentaries, in general, have seen their profile greatly increase, but the subgenre of true crime has blown up thanks to projects like “Making a Murderer.” But I can promise you one thing, you’ve never seen a true crime doc, or any doc really, quite like “Cold Case Hammarskjöld.”
And with the theatrical release of “Cold Case Hammarskjöld” right around the corner, we are thrilled to give you an exclusive look at a clip from the film, which gives a pretty great overview of what Mads Brügger’s film is all about.
If you’re not familiar with the doc, ‘Cold Case’ tackles the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. And in the process of investigating, Brügger, along with his sidekick, Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl, begin to find out that the mystery at the film’s center is just the beginning and the rabbit hole goes much, much deeper than they realized.
That premise sounds like your run-of-the-mill true crime doc in 2019, right? Well, watch the clip, check out the trailer, and read our review. If you do that, you’ll begin to realize that there’s a whole lot more going on in ‘Cold Case’ than what you initially believe. Our review from Sundance said, “Brügger’s movie plays mostly like a real-time thriller, to be honest, but whatever hybrid of non-fiction you want to categorize ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld,’ it’s nothing short of groundbreaking.”
“Cold Case Hammarskjöld” won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at this year’s Sundance and will finally arrive in theaters on August 16.
Here’s the synopsis:
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.