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Directed by: Mads Brügger
Country:
Denmark
Runtime: 1hr 33min
Year: 2011
Last Screened:
Mon 2nd Mar 2015
A strange, enigmatic and decadent white diplomat arrives in central Africa. Officially he is there to start a factory that produces matches – this, to employ locals and teach how to make this simple piece of fire-making equipment.
Unofficially he is really there to gain access to vast reserves of diamonds.
Director Mads Brügger puts himself into the position of a criminal in order to expose criminal activity, but we’re left to wonder how much he’s staged resulting in a genre-breaking, tragic comedy about the bizarre world of African diplomacy.