THE RED CHAPEL
Filmfest 2019
PT: DIE ROTE KAPELLE
OT: DET RØDE KAPEL
Denmark 2009
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: English, Danish, Korean)
Director: Mads Brügger
Section: Retrospective | Mads Brügger
Unter the pretense of a cultural exchange, Mads Brügger undertakes an investigative journey to North Korea. With him are two Danes of Korean extraction, comedians, one of whom suffers from a cerebral motor impairment. The trio's comically subversive performance as they pretend to be a theater group called The Red Chapel doesn't sit well with North Koreans loyal to the regime. Influenced by the totalitarian system and its representatives, both the stage play and the viewer's perspective of this country and its inhabitants begins to change. In this way, Brügger's documentary enables a shocking inside look at the absurdity and the repression of daily life under the late dictator Kim Jong-il.
With: Jacob Nossell, Simon Jul Jørgensen, Mads Brügger
Credits
Director of Photography: René Johannsen
Film Editor: René Johannsen
Production Designer: Ian Walsh
Costume Design: Simon Jul Jørgensen
Sound: Jakob Garfield, Mikkel Sørensen
Producer: Peter Engel
Production Company: Danmarks Radio (DR)
Co-Producer: Tomas Eskilsson
Director: Mads Brügger
biography
