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CitizenFour

castEdward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum, Ewen MacAskill, Jeremy Scahill, Julian Assange, M. Margareth McKeown, Barack Obama

Premio Oscar 2015 come Miglior Documentario

Vero e proprio thriller dagli sviluppi imprevedibili, CITIZENFOUR è la cronaca dell’incontro che si è tenuto a Hong Kong tra la regista Laura Poitras, il giornalista Glenn Greenwald ed Edward Snowden, in occasione del quale Snowden ha reso pubblici documenti altamente riservati che fornivano le prove di una sistematica invasione di privacy operata dall’NSA ai danni dei cittadini statunitensi.

CITIZENFOUR mette lo spettatore nella stessa stanza con la Poitras, Greenwald e Snowden mentre cercano di gestire la tempesta mediatica che imperversa all’esterno, obbligati a prendere decisioni rapide che segneranno le loro vite e le vite di coloro che li circondano.

Un film che non solo mostra il pericolo di una sorveglianza costante e invasiva da parte dei governi, ma lo fa percepire in tutta la sua concretezza. Dopo la visione, vedrai il tuo telefono, la tua e-mail, la tua carta di credito e persino il tuo browser in una luce completamente nuova. E inquietante.

In January 2013, Laura Poitras started receiving anonymous encrypted e-mails from “CITIZENFOUR,” who claimed to have evidence of illegal covert surveillance programs run by the NSA in collaboration with other intelligence agencies worldwide. Five months later, she and reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The resulting film is history unfolding before our eyes. – Written by Anonymous

In January 2013, Poitras (recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service) was several years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be 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. Executive Produced by Steven Soderbergh. (C) Radius