Born 1972, Denmark. Journalist with his own distinctive methods. Has gone undercover and infiltrated various milieus. Engaged by the national broadcaster DR in 1996, where he has created off-beat talk shows and satirical docu series such as"The Red Chapel".

A feature version of"The Red Chapel"came out in 2009, a documentary about Brügger and two stand-up comedians travelling to North Korea under the guise of a communist theatre troup. The film attracted international attention and won the World Cinema Jury Prize in Sundance in 2010. In"The Ambassador"(2011) Brügger is a diplomat-cum-documentarian in the Central African Republic. Selected for competition at IDFA 2011.

Revised 27.09.2011

Filmography
Short and Documentaries
Ambassadøren / The Ambassador (Mads Brügger, 2012)
Det røde kapel / The Red Chapel (Mads Brügger, 2009)


Revised 27.09.2011

Source:
www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/danishfilms/dfperson.aspx?id=11832

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FILMOGRAFI

Ambassadøren (Mads Brügger, DK, 2011)
Instruktør, Ide, Manuskript

Klovn - the movie (Mikkel Nørgaard, DK, 2010)
Medvirkende

Det røde kapel (Mads Brügger, DK, 2009)
Instruktør, Medvirkende


Source:
www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/nationalfilmografien/nfperson.aspx?id=184183