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Ithaka

8.3 111 mins Documentary   2022
Shipton House   Screen Australia   VicScreen   Australian Broadcasting Corporation  
Director(s): Ben Lawrence

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.

Casts of Ithaka

John Shipton

as self

Julian Assange

as Self (archive footage)

Donald Trump

as Self (archive footage)

Theresa May

as Self (archive footage)

Daniel Ellsberg

as Self (archive footage)

Boris Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

Edward Snowden

as Self (archive footage)

Joe Rogan

as Self (archive footage)

Ai Weiwei

as Self

Sophie Raworth

as Self (archive footage)

Joe Biden

as Self (archive footage)

Bernie Sanders

as Self (archive footage)

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