Mads Brügger
Mads Brügger (born 24 June 1972) is a Danish filmmaker and TV host.
Works
Klovn
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being a direct reference to Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot movies. The poster for the first film can be seen in Casper and Frank’s offices throughout the series. Klovn initially ran 6 seasons on TV2 Zulu from 2005-2009 and was renewed with an additional 3 seasons that aired from 2018-2022.
Release Date2005-02-07
Charactersd Mads
Episode Count1
Vote Count29
The Black Swan
A female lawyer with connections to much of the Danish underworld decides to break away from her old environment. She becomes a mole for a group of journalists, and with a hidden camera, she starts exposing everything from bikers to lawyers and major businesspeople.
Release Date2024-05-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Self - Journalist
Episode Count7
Vote Count6
The Ambassador
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.
Release Date2011-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count61
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.
Release Date2019-02-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self - Investigator
Vote Count42
ZULU Comedy Galla
Release Date2010-09-02
Charactersd Mads Brügger
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Copenhagen Cowboy
After a lifetime of being sold as a human good luck charm, a woman with mysterious supernatural abilities seeks revenge against those who wronged her.
Release Date2023-01-05
Charactersd Jonas
Episode Count1
Vote Count108
DRs bedste
Release Date2025-04-01
Charactersd Sig selv
Episode Count5
Klovn the Final
The third and final feature based on the acclaimed Danish TV series finds Frank turning 50 so Casper invites him to Iceland on a boys' trip. Naturally, the trip does not go quite as planned.
Release Date2020-01-30
Charactersd Mads Brügger
Vote Count21
The John Dalli Mystery
Eight years ago, Mads Brügger and Mikael Bertelsen tried to solve the murder of an EU official in 1993. A project that concluded in a dead end. Hoping to make good for their old defeat, the two journalists decide to investigate a complex case about the former EU Health Commissioner, John Dalli, who was fired under suspicion of being in the pocket of the tobacco industry. Brügger and Bertelsen travel to Malta to meet Dalli, who comes across as quite likeable. And it does not take long before they uncover an extensive conspiracy against him, when Dalli is suddenly contacted by a secret source who claims to be in possession of documents and recordings that contain plans to kill him.
Release Date2017-03-21
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count7
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
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.
Release Date2020-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count112
Brødrene ost
Release Date2020-09-05
Charactersd Speak
Episode Count1
Klown
Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's mate Casper is also coming along. Weighed down a with their obligation, Frank and Casper nevertheless look forward to ending the trip at Skanderborg Festival where there's plenty there for the guys, a spree of drinking and women. Not the best example to set for young Bo. And how do their partners see it all?
Release Date2010-12-16
Charactersd Mads Brügger
Vote Count131
25 år med DR2 - fra Banjo til Bonderøven
Release Date2021-08-28
Charactersd Sig selv
NWR
A documentary about Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Festival in 2011 for Drive. From his childhood to the shooting of his next movie, Only God Forgives, in Thailand, discover the whole career of a truly visionary filmmaker. With Ryan Gosling, Mads Mikkelsen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gaspar Noé, Peter Peter and Zlatko Buric.
Release Date2012-02-02
Charactersd Self
Vote Count15
The Red Chapel
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.
Release Date2010-12-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Vote Count29
The Mole - Infiltrating North Korea
Release Date2020-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
Other People's Money
The cum-ex scandal has caused 146 billion euros in losses in several countries. Inspired by true events, two women from Germany and Denmark are trying to put an end to it.
Release Date2025-04-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Vote Count12
The Saint Bernard Syndicate
The film is a comedy about Rasmus and Frederik, two Danish men in their 30s, who head out on a business venture. They know each other from a boarding school back in Denmark and none of them have really been successful in life so far. Now they meet, 15 years later, both keen to set up a dog breeding centre. The two partners have learned that so-called luxury dogs are extremely popular among the Chinese upper class and therefore expect this to be their way into fast and overwhelming wealth in China. A 200 plus lb St. Bernard dog by the name of Dollar travels with them to Chongqing. Here they meet up with the mysterious Mr. Liu who owns the largest bakery in Western China and who believes that dogs are as powerful as humans. Soon, the dog business evolves in unexpected ways, while the friendship between the two Danes grows stronger.
Release Date2018-05-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Yallahrup Færgeby
Release Date2007-12-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Den 11. time
Den 11. time was a Danish television talkshow on DR2. It aired at 23:00 on DR2 weekly on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The show was hosted by Mikael Bertelsen, and his editor, Mads Brügger would occasionally step in as host for a given programme. Den 11. time included guests such as the then-Danish Minister of Culture, Brian Mikkelsen, but also had foreign guests such as Phillip Blond or even Mikhail Gorbachev, who stated in a letter to the presenters that it was one of the most interesting interviews he ever did. Sometimes the programme would air live, but other times it would be pre-recorded, often to be able to get the subtitles on for non-Danish guests. Though, at times an interpreter in the studio provided the translations. It last broadcast on 21 May 2008, despite large popularity.
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2