The Ambassador | Overview & Details

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Starring: Mads Brügger

Director/s: Mads Brügger

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Produced By: Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Peter Garde, Peter Engel, Carsten Holst

Release Date:

August 29, 2012 (New York), August 31, 2012 (LA)  (Showtimes & Tickets)

Film Synopsis:

This darkly comic, genre-bending documentary that exposes the corrupt business of selling diplomatic titles to exploit the lucrative and limited resources of war torn, third world nations. Filmmaker/journalist/provocateur Mads Brügger (Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner for The Red Chapel) uses humor in his jaw-dropping descent into one of the most dangerous places on the planet: Central African Republic. From each absurdly terrifying and hilarious situation to the next, The Ambassadoris a one-of-a-kind excursion from the man whom The Huffington Post has called "the most provocative filmmaker in the world."

Financed by filmmaker Lars Von Trier's production company Zentropa (Melancholia, Klown) to expose the violence, greed and corruption of foreign businessman in the Central African Republic, Brügger developed a new documentary style that he calls "performative journalism," in which he creates an absurd caricature of a corrupt diplomat and arms himself with a phalanx of hidden cameras, black-market credentials and razor-sharp wit. It's part performance art, part investigative journalism, producing humor, shocking revelations and above all a tragic picture of a failed and corrupt state.

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Genre/s: Documentary   

Distributor: Drafthouse Films

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