The Red Chapel (2009)
- Original title
- Det røde kapel
- Directed by
- Mads Brügger
- Genre
- documentary film, comedy film
- Country
- Denmark
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 30 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Danish filmmaker and two comedians adopted from South Korea travel to North Korea posing as a theater troupe. They secretly aim to expose the absurdities of life under the regime while one of them, who has a disability, challenges the country's treatment of disabled people.
satiricalprovocativeabsurdtenseunsettlingdarkly comicobservationalconfrontational
What happens
The Red Chapel (Danish: Det Røde Kapel) is a 2009 Danish documentary film directed by Mads Brügger. It chronicles the visit of Brügger and two Danish comedians who were adopted from South Korea, Jacob Nossell and Simon Jul, to North Korea under the pretense of a small theatre troupe on a cultural exchange. This is also the first time the two comedians have ever visited North Korea. The entire trip is a ruse: the goal of the trio is actually to portray the absurdity of life that they will lead in North Korea. An additional emotional aspect is that Jacob Nossell has spastic paralysis and North Korea has been accused of disposing of disabled people. The film won Best Nordic Documentary at Nordisk Panorama 2009 and Best Foreign Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it was included in the Official Selection. It is filmed and edited by René Sascha Johannsen. The film features roughly the same contents as the 4-part documentary series Det Røde Kapel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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