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The Red Chapel
Directed by
Mads Brügger
Not Rated
2010
88m
Comedy
,
Documentary
7.2
63%
74%
7.2
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Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act.
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Cast of The Red Chapel
Simon Jul Jørgensen
Self / Writer / Costume Coordinator
Jacob Nossell
Self / Writer
Mads Brügger
Self / Director / Writer
Tommy Kent
Self
Per Pellesen
Self
Kim Jong-il
Self (archive footage)
Peter Engel
Producer
Tomas Eskilsson
Co-Producer
Mette Hoffman Meyer
Executive Producer
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Executive Producer
Johan Stahl
Assistant Director
René Sascha Johannsen
Editor
Mikkel Sørensen
Sound
Jakob Garfield
Sound
The Red Chapel Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
Brgger, borrowing moves from the Herzog playbook (including sardonic voiceover) prevaricates continuously, skewering the hapless state at every opportunity.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Rarely has comedy been as unnerving as it is in The Red Chapel. Perhaps that's because it's hard to tell who the joke is on. One thing's for sure, though: North Korea isn't laughing.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Things might not go quite as Brgger planned, but as is so often the case, that seems to have been for the best.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Every documentary has an agenda, one supposes, but this would-be-serious condemnation of North Korea, lacking actual back-up or essential humor, merely consists of one man's obsessive and puerile snarkiness.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
The Red Chapel becomes an infectiously funny, gonzo glimpse into the sausage-making process of propaganda.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
Sloppy even by guerrilla filmmaking standards.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Comedy of the absurd meets the country of the absurd in The Red Chapel, a clear-eyed and inspired documentary about the folly that is North Korea.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
The director's ploys are stymied by the very national illusion he contends masks death camps and a citizenry's consuming fear.
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