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Citizenfour (2014)

R 114 minutes EN 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.

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Edward Snowden

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Glenn Greenwald

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Laura Poitras

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William Binney

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Barack Obama

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Jacob Appelbaum

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Julian Assange

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Jeremy Scahill

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Kevin Bankston

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Ewen MacAskill

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Lindsay Mills

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Sara Bernstein

Supervisor of Production Resources

Trevor Paglen

Director of Photography

Kirsten Johnson

Director of Photography

Laura Poitras

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Svenja Rieck

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Mathilde Bonnefoy

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Sheila Nevins

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Katy Scoggin

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The documentary is good and the story telling is easy to follow but I felt that it was too artificially turned into a spying movie ... even when it is the closest to a real spying movie, but it doesn't have to recall fiction.
In any case, I think the positive reviews and the importance of the documentary is much more because of what Snowden had to say and tell us about US' NSA, not that much about the documentary itself.

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Official website: https://citizenfourfilm.com

Production companies: Praxis Films, Participant, HBO Documentary Films, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, The Bertha Foundation, RADiUS-TWC

Production countries: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America

Revenue: $3,003,169

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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