The Mole

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom / 120 min / 2020

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Unconventional Danish director Mads Brügger has yet again shifted the boundaries of his original work. This time he set a trap – and caught the dictatorial North Korean regime.

About the Film

This dramatic and hard-to-believe story starts when former chef Ulrich Larsen, now living on social security, decides to join the international Korean Friendship Association. When he gains favour with the organization’s powerful head Alejandro Cao de Benós, who has contacts among senior officials in Pyongyang, he asks film director Brügger if he would like to document the promisingly developing situation. Things go quickly after that. The idiosyncratic investor James enters the picture, as well as North Korean political and military leaders, and a deal involving millions of dollars in weapons starts to evolve. How far is it possible to go in this dangerous game? The secret filming took ten years and a UN expert described the result as the greatest embarrassment Kim Jong-un has ever suffered. // Thanks to British Council Prague for supporting this film.

Directed By:

Mads Brügger

Country of Origin:

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

Year:

2020

Duration:

120 min

Subtitles:

Czech, English

Accessibility:

English friendly