Mads Brügger
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The red chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. The result is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian regime.
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This darkly comic, genre-bending piece of gonzo journalism from rips the lid off the scheme of political corruption. Armed with a phalanx of hidden cameras Brügger transforms himself into an outlandish caricature of a European consul.
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Danish
Description
Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes' scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China's middle class. Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Actor in the International Narrative Competition at **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"A wily left turn into narrative filmmaking for celebrated docmaker Mads Brügger, "St. Bernard Syndicate" deftly extends...