Ithaka (2022)
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.
Director: Ben Lawrence
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John Shipton as self |
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Julian Assange as Self (archive footage) |
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Donald Trump as Self (archive footage) |
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Theresa May as Self (archive footage) |
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Daniel Ellsberg as Self (archive footage) |
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Boris Johnson as Self (archive footage) |
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Edward Snowden as Self (archive footage) |
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Joe Rogan as Self (archive footage) |
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Ai Weiwei as Self |
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Sophie Raworth as Self (archive footage) |
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Joe Biden as Self (archive footage) |
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Bernie Sanders as Self (archive footage) |
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Vivienne Westwood as Self |
| Production | Roger Savage | Executive Producer |
| Production | Adrian Devant | Producer |
| Editing | Karen Johnson | Editor |
| Production | Gabriel Shipton | Producer |
| Camera | Niels Ladefoged | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Ben Lawrence | Director |
| Sound | Brian Eno | Music |
| Writing | Ben Lawrence | Writer |
| Crew | Stephen Oliver | Commissioning Editor |
| Crew | Octavia Mansfield Schweitzer | Post Production Supervisor |
| Production | Lidia Ciszewska | Production Manager |
| Sound | Andrew Kotatko | Music Supervisor |
| Crew | Nico Lathouris | Thanks |
| Crew | Paula Jensen | Thanks |
| Crew | John Pilger | Thanks |
| Crew | Dan Read | Thanks |
| Editing | Phoenix Chisholm | Assistant Editor |
