The Ambassador

The Ambassador

To Break The Story, He Must Become The Story

201193 min6.7 / 10

A darkly comedic, genre-bending documentary where a journalist's undercover infiltration of the blood diamond trade becomes a tense, morally ambiguous investigation that blurs the line between exposé and performance.

Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.

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