111 minutes
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.
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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Cast
Self (archive footage)
Julian Assange
Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Theresa May
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Ellsberg
Self (archive footage)
Boris Johnson
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More about Ithaka
Languages
English
Release date
21 April 2022
Directors
Ben Lawrence
Genres
Documentary
TMDB Rating
8.3
Runtime
111 mins
Ithaka is a Documentary film directed by Ben Lawrence and starring John Shipton and Julian Assange. It has a runtime of 111 minutes and a high TMDB audience rating of 8.3 from 7 votes.
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