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THE AMBASSADOR

AMBASSADØREN

By Mads BRÜGGER

TRUSTNORDISK - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2011

What happens when a very white European man buys a diplomatic title which turns him into an African diplomat overnight - right in the middle of one of Central Africa’s most failed nation states?

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- DENMARK
- Languages
- DANISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Mads BRÜGGER
- Writer(s)
- Mads BRÜGGER, Maja JUL LARSEN
- Cast
- Mads BRÜGGER, Eva JAKOBSEN
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-209D-0000-8-0000-0000-D
- EIDR
- 10.5240/AD50-51E1-164D-664E-2614-I
- Producer(s)
- Peter ENGEL (Zentropa), Carsten HOLST (Zentropa Real)
- Synopsis
- A strange, enigmatic and decadent white European with diplomatic credentials arrives in The CAR to head a diplomatic mission representing Liberia.
  Officially he is there as a do-good business man 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 there to gain access to vast reserves of diamonds.
  The Ambassador is a genre-breaking, tragic comedy about the bizarre and hidden world of African diplomacy, where gin-tonics flow on a daily basis and diamond hustlers and corrupt politicians run free.