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The Red Chapel(Det røde kapel)

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Denmark · 2009
1h 28m
Director Mads Brügger
Starring Simon Jul Jørgensen, Jacob Nossell, Mads Brügger
Genre Comedy, Documentary

Two Danish comics of Korean descent, one of whom is spastic, join the director on a trip to North Korea. They have been allowed access under the pretext of performing a vaudeville act. The government expects them to produce positive propaganda, but they intend to mock the North Korean regime...

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Village Voice by

The Red Chapel becomes an infectiously funny, gonzo glimpse into the sausage-making process of propaganda.

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Time Out by Eric Hynes

Uniting Sacha Baron Cohen's daredevilry with Werner Herzog's bombast, Brügger aims to expose "the evilness of North Korea" with a gloriously incoherent, kazoo-and-whoopee-cushion–inflected stage show starring a self-proclaimed "spastic."

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