Movie
Citizenfour
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2014-10-10
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Participant, HBO Documentary Films, The Bertha Foundation, BR, NDR, Praxis Films Berlin, Britdoc Circle, Channel 4 Television
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Edward Snowden as Self
- Glenn Greenwald as Self
- Laura Poitras as Self
- William Binney as Self
- Barack Obama as Self
- Jacob Appelbaum as Self
- Julian Assange as Self
- Jeremy Scahill as Self
- Kevin Bankston as Self
- Ewen MacAskill as Self
- Lindsay Mills as Self
Crew
- Laura Poitras - Director
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