Magnolia Pictures Acquires Rights to Sundance Doc ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’

Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to the documentary “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” which won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at Sundance this month. Magnolia is planning to release the film this year.

The film follows the unfinished investigation into the death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was killed in a plane crash in 1961. It’s understood that because at the time, Hammarskjöld was advocating for Congo’s independence, the “crash” was an assassination.

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