Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Some things have been hidden too long

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.

Documentary History

Mads Brügger

(Self - Investigator)

Clarinah Mfengu

(Self - Secretary)

Saphir Wenzi Mabanza

(Self - Secretary)

Göran Björkdahl

(Self - Investigator)

Hilding Björkdahl

(Self - Göran's Father)

Charles Southall

(Self - Former NSA Agent)

Norman Kenward

(Self - Photographer)

Jan Beuckels

(Self - R. Beuckels' Nephew)

Lydia Sterkendries

(Self - R. Beuckels' Friend)

Hans Corell

(Self - Diplomat)

Stephen Sedley

(Self - Lawyer)

De Wet Potgieter

(Self - Journalist)

Diane Maxwell

(Self - K. Maxwell's Widow (voice))

René Goor

(Self - Former SAIMR Member)

Claude Newbury

(Self - Medical Doctor)

Tienie Groenewald

(Self - Former SADF Chief)

Pierre Coppens

(Self - Ex-Paratrooper)

Marion van Risseghem

(Self - J. van Risseghem's Widow)

Clive Jansen van Vuuren

(Self - Former SAIMR Member)

Robert Cedars

(Self - Former SAIMR Member (voice))

Alexander Jones

(Self - Former SAIMR Member)

Karl Feil

(Self - D. Feil's Brother)

Julian Olgilvie Thompson

(Self (voice))

Dag Hammarskjöld

(Self - Diplomat (archive footage))

Dagmar Feil

(Self - SAIMR Member (archive footage))

Desmond Tutu

(Self - Anglican Bishop (archive footage))

Dumisa Ntsebeza

(Self - Political Activist (archive footage))

John F. Kennedy

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Moïse Kapenda Tshombe

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Nikita Khrushchev

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

U Thant

(Self - Diplomat (archive footage))