Movie

Citizenfour

Release: 2014 Runtime: 1h 53min Rating: R Language: English

Documentary

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.

Status: Released
Original language: EN
Production countries: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Participant, HBO Documentary Films, The Bertha Foundation, BR, NDR, Praxis Films Berlin, Britdoc Circle, Channel 4 Television

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Audience rating

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Gallery

Director

Laura Poitras

Main crew

Kirsten Johnson — Director of Photography
Trevor Paglen — Director of Photography
Katy Scoggin — Director of Photography
Mathilde Bonnefoy — Editor
Atticus Ross — Original Music Composer
Trent Reznor — Original Music Composer
Dirk Wilutzky — Producer
Mathilde Bonnefoy — Producer

Cast

Edward Snowden , Glenn Greenwald , Laura Poitras , William Binney , Barack Obama , Jacob Appelbaum , Julian Assange , Jeremy Scahill

Themes and genres

Documentary biography national security agency (nsa) woman director investigative journalism whistleblower surveillance state observational documentary mass surveillance fbi surveillance