Ithaka

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
2022-04-21
TMDB
8.5 / 10 (8)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 51 Min.
Genres
Dokumentarfilm
Regie
Ben Lawrence

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Ithaka is a 2021 Australian documentary film, which depicts the incarceration of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange through the experience of his wife Stella Assange and his father John Shipton. It was produced by his half-brother Gabriel Shipton. It premiered at the Sydney Film Festival on November 7, 2021.

Production

Ithaka was produced by Julian Assange's half-brother Gabriel Shipton. In 2022, Gabriel Shipton approached the Australian director Ben Lawrence to make a film about John Shipton's efforts to help Assange. Lawrence said he hoped the film would encourage Assange supporters:It really was a family film. And as much as that creates subjectivity, I think I really leant into that and the film was built from the premise of love – and the film shows that.

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