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Ithaka (2022) [N/A]

Featuring:
John Shipton, Stella Assange, Nils Melzer

Written by:
Ben Lawrence

Directed by:
Ben Lawrence


Release Date:
April 21, 2022

Original Title:
Ithaka

Alternate Titles:
Ithaka: A Fight To Free Julian Assange

Genres:
Documentary

Production Companies:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Screen Australia
Shipton House
VicScreen

Production Countries:
Australia

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  GB: 12A  NZ: M 

Runtime: 111

a father. a family. a fight for justice.

Overview from TheMovieDB

The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. For his family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the abyss of the US justice system, however, this David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with his health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors pulling out all the stops to extradite him, the clock is ticking.

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Overview from Open Movies

Assange remains a remand prisoner at U.K.'s maximum security Belmarsh Prison as he appeals an extradition order to the U.S. where he could face 175 years in prison for his role in the release of classified U.S. diplomatic files.

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Rankings and Honors

Ithaka (2022) on IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes 73%
Metacritic 55/100
Awards Won: 7 wins & 11 nominations

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Production

Assistant Editor:
Phoenix Chisholm

Commissioning Editor:
Stephen Oliver

Director:
Ben Lawrence

Director of Photography:
Niels Ladefoged

Editor:
Karen Johnson

Executive Producer:
Roger Savage

Music:
Brian Eno

Music Supervisor:
Andrew Kotatko

Post Production Supervisor:
Octavia Mansfield Schweitzer

Producer:
Gabriel Shipton
Adrian Devant

Production Manager:
Lidia Ciszewska

Thanks:
Dan Read
John Pilger
Paula Jensen
Nico Lathouris

Writer:
Ben Lawrence

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