With Mads Brügger, Heather Schmid. But much of what he was able to record — the deadpan viciousness of a French mercenary in charge of state security; the casual greed of fellow diplomats; the pomposity and duplicity of local bureaucrats — is genuinely appalling. To cut to the chase: Everyone he meets is on the take, some from each other. absurd) connection.Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. General Information . Mads Brügger. 'The Ambassador" is a sociopolitical prankumentary in which the prank blows up in the filmmaker's face, exploding-cigar style. The Danish filmmaker Mads Bruegger stars as Mads Cortzen, a man who does not exist — but who is no more fabricated than every other character in this incredible stunt. An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? This seems an almost impossible stunt to pull off, let alone doing it on camera, but Brugger brazenly manages by exploiting the ignorance of his African counterparts: while some of the footage was shot with hidden cameras, most of it was captured with a Canon EOS 7D, which simply does not look like it can capture HD (and, most importantly, sound).His most important asset, though, was the persona he created for this special assignment: dressed like a warped version of a colonial overlord, complete with riding boots and an assortment of pipes, cigars and cigarette-holders as props, he regales his guests with inappropriate anecdotes, racist comments and naïve questions.In short: he comes across as a perfect sucker – which is what an assortment of politicians, businessmen, attorneys and assistants immediately take him for, falling over one another to get to his bank account first, without taking the time to check into his background.This reality provides the film’s main fodder for controversy, too, since Brugger does not just con real-life dictators (or their kin), but also a tribe of pygmies who (one assumes) learned how to fabricate matches for a factory that will never be built. He has gone through the motions of starting a match factory as a cover, and Gilbert connects him with a pygmy tribe that he can train as match-makers. His (African) business partner’s reaction (“Hitler is funny”), on the other hand, is highly illuminating and tells us a lot more about ignorance and racism than many politically correct documentaries ever could.All of this proves highly entertaining, but as the story progresses, Africa’s more dangerous aspects rear their ugly heads: important contracts vanish, the paid ambassadorship does not go through and the country’s head of internal security, whom Brugger had secretly filmed several times, is assassinated.In the end, it will be up to the eye of the beholder to decide. Nothing is quite as simple as it seems. It is all real. It's an open secret that diamonds would not be rare if their global supply were not ruthlessly curtailed by an international cartel. Nov 18, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Hao Le. Discover (and save!) Ironically, since there will never be a match factory, Albert and Bernard cannot trust him.Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. your own Pins on Pinterest No. It is clear he could easily get himself killed, and the danger he faces is as riveting as the corruption he witnesses. His first purchase is a Liberian diplomatic credential, which he thinks will allow him to operate in the Central African Republic with impunity as he buys conflict gems and sets up a match factory. Mads informs us at the outset that one way to get rich is to use a genuine diplomatic passport to travel to a nation like the Central African Republic and carry out a briefcase full of diamonds.