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The Mole: Undercover in North Korea

2020 · 123 min

A tense, stranger-than-fiction plunge into paranoia and danger, where ordinary men bluff their way through a closed, menacing world.

Directed by
Mads Brügger
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Mads Brügger, Ulrich Løvenskjold Larsen, Jim Latrache-Qvortrup
Overview
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Mads Brügger
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Mads Brügger, Ulrich Løvenskjold Larsen, Jim Latrache-Qvortrup
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    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • deception
    • conspiracy
    • power
    • survival
    • obsession
    Places
    • big city
    • countryside
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • true story
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Action3
    Horror2
    Humour3
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension7
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    Complexity6
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Mads Brügger
    Written by
    Mads Brügger
    Starring
    Mads Brügger, Ulrich Løvenskjold Larsen, Jim Latrache-Qvortrup, Annie Machon, Hisham Al-Dasouqi, Kim Ryong Chol, Anders Kristensen, Otto Warmbier
    Runtime
    123 min
    Country
    Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
    Languages
    English, Danish, Spanish, Korean

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