In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely sui generis in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes. Poitras is a great and brave filmmaker, but she is also a masterful storyteller: she compresses the many days of questioning, waiting, confirming, watching the world’s reaction and agonizing over the next move, into both a great character study of Snowden and a narrative that will leave you on the edge of your seat as it inexorably moves toward its conclusion. CITIZENFOUR is a major work on multiple levels, and a deeply unsettling
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Edward Snowden | Self |
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Glenn Greenwald | Self |
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William Binney | Self |
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Jacob Appelbaum | Self |
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Ewen MacAskill | Self |
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Jeremy Scahill | Self |
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M. Margaret McKeown | Self - Judge |
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Kevin Bankston | Self - attorney representing Carolyn Jewel |
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Harry Pregerson | Self - Judge |
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H. Thomas Byron | Self - Government Representative |
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Michael Daly Hawkins | Self - Judge |
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Jonathan Man | Self - Human Rights Lawyer |
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Robert Tibbo | Self - Human Rights Lawyer |
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José Casado | Self |
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Roberto Kaz | Self |
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Julian Borger | Self - Editor / The Guardian |
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Paul Johnson | Self |
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Nick Hopkins | Self |
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Julian Assange | Self |
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Marcel Bosonnet | Self - Lawyer |
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Wolfgang Kaleck | Self - Lawyer |
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Ben Wizner | Self - ACLU Lawyer |
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William Bourdon | Self - Lawyer |
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Gonzalo Boye | Self |
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Carsten Gericke | Self |
| Director | Laura Poitras |
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| Writer | Laura Poitras | |
| Producer | Sara Bernstein, Barbara Biemann, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Daniel Buresch, Brenda Coughlin, Kirsten Johnson, Marcelo Lessa, David Menschel, Sheila Nevins, Laura Poitras, Tom Quinn, Sonja Scheider, Katy Scoggin, Jeff Skoll, Steven Soderbergh, Diane Weyermann, Dirk Wilutzky | |
| Photography | Kirsten Johnson, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Katy Scoggin | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Stereo [English] |
| Distributor | Anchor Bay |
| Edition Release Date | Aug 25, 2015 |