The Quatraro Mystery is a thriller documentary about the dark side of Europe in which renowned directors Mads Brügger (The Ambassador/The Red Chapel) and Jeppe Rønde (The Swenkas/Bridgend) unfold a disturbing and darkly humorous journalistic investigation of corruption and possibly murder within the European Commission. The film deals satirically with issues of democracy, lobbying, legislative processes in a western democracy. For a European TV-audience the film will bring a political EU-drama to life and unfold the highly dramatic dilemmas involving corruption, crime and suicide.In March 1993 Antonio Quatraro, former Head of The European Commissions’ office for tobacco subsidies, flew out of his office building in Brussels. He soon landed and smashed his face on the pavement of Rue de la Loi. This was the end for the 59-year old small and bulky Italian employee of the EU, until two Danish journalists travel to Brussels on a different matter twenty years later: the dismissal of EU Health Commissioner John Dalli, who was forced to leave EU in disgrace. Dalli presents them with a non-negotiable condition for laying his cards on the table: They have to find out why and how Quatraro fell from his office.As the two travel across and around Europe and lift the lid on the powerful influence of the ’big tobacco’ in the European Commission, the two controversial cases begin to melt together and form a powerful, irrefutable synthesis of everything that is dysfunctional about EU of today. Produced by Sara Stockmann (Armadillo) and co-produced by Bjarte Tveit (The Act of Killing), the film is an inherently European story integrating various European locations and characters and tapping into the European public broadcasters urge to tell up-to-date stories about the new challenges a united Europe faces. Confirmed broadcasters are BBC, VPRO, DR, SVT, NRK, RTV, TVP.Trailer (3 minutes)https://vimeo.com/115906524