Sundance Winner Mads Brügger on North Korea Exposé ‘The Mole,’ Relying on ‘Fool’s Luck’

Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger, who won a Sundance best director award for “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” expected a bigger fallout following the release of his latest film, “The Mole: Undercover in North Korea,” he admitted during his CineLink Talk at Sarajevo Film Festival.His documentary, focusing on two men embarking on a mission to expose the secrets of the Korean Friendship Association (Kfa) and its Spanish president, is shown at the festival in the Dealing with the Past section, alongside his previous efforts “The Ambassador,” an investigation of the blood diamond trade in Africa, and “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” about the mysterious death of the secretary general of the United Nations.“I thought it would lead to the arrest of Alejandro Cao de Benós, but nothing has happened.

All of this made me contemplate that maybe he is a double agent himself,” said Brügger, teasing a possible continuation of the larger-than-life saga

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