The Red Chapel(Det røde kapel)

Name: The Red Chapel
Genre: Comedy, Documentary

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.

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."

New York Post by Kyle Smith

For boldness of execution as well as vision, The Red Chapel stands out as a singular, important comedy.

The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger

The product - sloppy even by guerrilla filmmaking standards - has no revelations to offer that are worth the slog of watching it.