Citizen Four
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Whistleblower Edward Snowden kontaktiert im Frühjahr die Filmemacherin Laura Poitras und den Journalisten Glenn Greenwald. Laura Poitras führte exklusive Gespräche mit dem im Exil lebenden Snowden, der durch die Enthüllungen des Ausmaßes von. Citizenfour ist ein oscarprämierter Dokumentarfilm von Laura Poitras über den US-amerikanischen Whistleblower Edward Snowden und die durch ihn. Im Juni fliegen Laura Poitras und die Journalisten Glenn Greenwald und Ewen MacAskill nach Hongkong, um sich mit „Citizen Four“ zu treffen – es ist. Citizenfour - [OmU]. ()1 Std. 48 MinX-Ray0. Im Januar erhält die Filmemacherin Laura Poitras, die gerade am dritten Teil ihrer vielfach. "Citizen Four" war Edward Snowdens Deckname, als er Kontakt mit Laura Poitras aufnahm. (Foto: dpa). In ihrer Dokumentation "Citizenfour" zeigt. Erst vorgestern hat Laura Poitras' Dokumentarfilm Citizenfour in Los Angeles den diesjährigen Oscar für den besten Dokumentarfilm erhalten. Im Juni fliegen Laura Poitras und die Journalisten Glenn Greenwald und Ewen MacAskill nach Hongkong, um sich mit `Citizen Four` zu treffen - es ist.
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Er hatte einen recht gut bezahlten Job, und eine wohl eigentlich gut gesicherte Existenz. Andere Mirror kann man aber immer noch finden. Zuzusehen, wie diese Enthüllungen in die Welt finden, wie Snowden technische Voraussetzungen und Abhörpraktiken ausführlich erklären muss, bis ein tief greifendes Misstrauen, ja Paranoia bei den Journalisten und Zuschauern einsetzt - das ist aber dann doch hochspannend: Wann kann man schon dabei zusehen, wie Geschichte geschrieben wird?

This is the key importance of the Citizenfour. Here, we see Snowden as an intelligent young man, rational, precise in thought and expression, very articulate and most importantly, courageous, ethical and highly motivated.
Its not coincidence that Eduard Snowden is often compared with the case of analyst Daniel Ellsberg who in handed a large internal secret Pentagon report on the war in Vietnam to the press.
A man who, guided by ethical principles, decides to risk everything he has and takes a step into the unknown deserves to be hailed as a hero.
Without exaggeration, we can say that whistle-blowers who are giving to the public evidences of abuses and crimes of the state and corporations are the true heroes of our time.
Another impression is also very strong - that of loathing we feel in front of blatant media lies of state representatives and bureaucrats of intelligence organizations.
Today, this times repeated lie didn't become the truth - it remained a lie, and those behind it are continuing to be liars.
We fully understand that the world system in we live in has absolutely no legitimacy, and is primarily maintained by the bare force and fear of that force.
Strongest feeling that remains after watching this film is the anxiety about the direction in which the world is going and the hope that the possibility to change that route still exists.
It is not the question of the nature of the society we live in. We know it, we understand it. The real question is - what kind of society do we want to live in?
And, what we are willing to do to make that society happen? I'd also recommend that after seeing Citizenfour you watch the talk by Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum "Reconstructing narratives - transparency in the service of justice" and Appelbaum's lecture on the militarization of the Internet "To Protect And Infect".
Director Laura Poitras has made an interesting and eye opening documentary called "Citizenfour" which showcases the story and the actual interviews in Hong Kong of whistle blower Edward Snowden.
Everyone remembers in the news the story of the NSA scandal it became clear to everyone that the federal government was doing privacy invasion on nearly all citizens of the united states.
I know you feel the same way it's clear that a lot of times you hear your phone and cell calls monitored and true at work, when you shop, or go to the bank or even drive thru a traffic red light your on camera!
Simple no one has privacy in the world, true as mentioned in the film changed a lot of things still the NSA in my opinion has took it to far with their worldwide programs with the spying on emails and the data collection that is sold to other agency types it's like the feds know where you go everything you do and who you see!
It's sad that we as citizens have to give up our privacy because of terror of other nations. Still it's an ever lasting issue really see this documentary it's revealing, provocative, educational, and blunt as it proves we as citizens don't have any privacy when it comes to freedom as your calls, emails, viewing choices, travels, and data is all looked at and matched it's time we had more people like Edward Snowden as a whistle blower can be a hero.
This film is recommended. Traitor or hero? Idealist or cynic? Whistleblower or pawn? No matter one's opinions, Edward Snowden remains a fascinating person and this documentary analyzes his actions and motives.
The filmmakers met him at the outset of his controversial decision to leak pertinent and highly classified information to the world about the underhanded dealings of the National Security Agency under the guise of homeland protection.
Laura Poitras, who was directly contacted with some encrypted e-mails from Edward Snowden, under the alias of citizenfour, directs this documentary as it follows his rise and fall as those stolen NSA documents are leaked to the public.
These copies expose the international spying of thousands of American citizens and other foreign nationals.
Filmed in Hong Kong, prior to his exile to Russia, Citizenfour documents Snowden as he becomes a man without a country. Articulate and appearing sincere, one senses his moralistic stance and his principles, but also his naivety when dealing with ruthless and powerful forces.
Poitras' film is a series of perfectly timed moments of news-in-the-making as she captures historic footage of the beginnings of a political bombshell that will escalate into an international scandal of epic proportions.
The filmmaker develops a rapport and admiration with Snowden, which tends to bias her documentary, as she takes aim at the governmental spin to discredit him.
Nevertheless, what gives Citizenfour its real impact is its behind-the-scenes look at the misconduct and cover-ups of a nation, involving espionage wrongdoing by the American government and the unethical invasion of privacy of its people, via their phone and internet connections.
The film is extremely well made but lacking in innovative editing or artful photography. It's purely interview after interview, one talking head-shot after the next.
The lengthy interviews between Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, the investigative reporter who broke the story, make up most of the film. But these sections are in need of some judicious editing as they go on far too long, even if they are historically significance moments in time.
Citizenfour is an important film about important issues. Its subject matter deals with larger issues of sacrifice, patriotism, and paranoia.
A flip of the coin and one can see the film as sheer propaganda, intense political thriller, or a passionate film about our basic civil rights.
It raises questions about our essential loss of freedom and our need for bigger and better surveillance tactics to fight terrorism and preserve homeland security at any costs.
Snowden, the man who cried wolf? Hero or Amidst the ho-hum rhythm of the big holiday blockbusters endlessly marching to the drumbeat of massive audiences myself included sits this year's most important movie, and I daresay of many, many years Though the analogy to George Orwell's bone-chilling novel, his piece de resistance on oppression and authoritarianism, "", has already been made ad nauseam, I would not exaggerate that after seeing this movie, you might just end up feeling as if you already inhabit the dreadful world soo vividly and painstakingly depicted by Orwell, miserable by miserable detail.
I know I did once I walked out of the movie theatre. That was until my brain and sense of self was once again taken prisoner and atrophied by the banalities of daily life, which consume soo much of our personal existence these days.
Mea culpa. While, given its quite widespread effect and reach, the story and name of Edward Snowden are familiar or even well known to the public at large or so we think , "Citizenfour" tells the tense and uneasy story of Edward Snowden from his point of view and in his own words, as captured and related by filmmaker Laura Poitras, over the span of a few fascinating days spent in a hotel room in Hong Kong in Poitras, who herself felt the heat of being associated with this project, in fact becomes the eye through which we view this entire film unfolding.
While Poitras paints the cinematic portrait of Snowden, journalist Glenn Greenwald also personally affected by his association with Snowden who also features quite prominently in the movie, became the go-to person who gave form and shape to Snowden's quest, and for all intents and purposes was his voice, the one who amplified the entirety of Snowden's revelations.
To say that this movie is relevant and important, would do a disservice to this movie and all the parties involved.
It is not only that, beyond the shadow of a doubt, but it is also supremely urgent and needed for all of us as a cautionary tale for ourselves, a highlighted message towards our own sense of self, our identities and the sum parts which combine to form us as individual human beings worthy of a dignified existence punctuated by liberty and freedom.
In this Age Of Information of ours, it is mind boggling how nonchalant we seem to be going on about our privacy and our self-worth as fully thinking rational beings, and how easily we surrender our essence, our identity be it flesh-and-bone or digital, to the vague powers that be reigning over us, powers whom we seldomly recognize, define or have an input on the control and influence they exercise over our lives.
Be it the NSA, the CIA, the military-industrial complex, or whatever other format you may want to consider, make no mistake the bogeyman is real, not some imagined threat in a science-fiction movie, more akin to a fully realized nightmare.
The movie plays out as heartbreaking and sad as it does relevant, scary and vividly engrossing. It shows a man, his beliefs, warts and all, shortcomings and positives, pluses and minuses and how his actions have played out in our increasingly cluttered and messy world, one where we can barely recognize ourselves and our self-worth.
While Snowden's narrative has been largely dictated, made-up and written up by countless incarnations of the media, pundits, official mouthpieces, bloggers and so-called experts, I would urge people to go and see this movie for themselves, and make up their own minds as to whether they think Edward Snowden is a hero or a villain, a brave soul or a miserable coward.
Think for yourselves, make up your own minds and don't let others dictate what you should think or do. Do not lose yourselves, which I think in the end is the point this documentary is trying to make.
Personally I think that Snowden is and will be an unsung hero. I think that many years from now, the generations who will come after us will look back upon the moment when he rang the alarm bell on what was happening to our world, but we were too busy, too deaf and too self-absorbed to pay any real attention Or is it that something violently new is about to happen There's one documentary that breathes an air of importance you can feel from the poster.
It'll probably win the Oscar on that basis. That film is Laura Poitras' Citizenfour, a film that documents Edward Snowden's leaks before he became a familiar face.
He relays his point here, he doesn't want to be the story. He knows that's a matter of when and not if his nickname of choice Citizenfour refers to how he's the fourth whistleblower for the NSA.
Now that he is the story, here comes the perfect behind the scenes companion. I never knew much about Snowden, but this film humanizes him in a stripped down and honest if not a raw way.
There's a brilliant moment early on with the first reveal of Snowden after Poitras mislead us with a female actor dictating his emails.
You get a sense of this moment's significance - and then it blossoms all the way to President Obama. Sequences such as a fire alarm going off every minute keep you on edge, always aware of the paranoia in today's society.
It operates on an interesting irony with how they're filming yet aware of surveillance. The documentary has a very matter-of-fact approach to its events but that's all it needs, and Poitras and her team get out of the way despite opening the film in an autobiographical way.
Citizenfour puts faces on the controversy, remaining intelligent without being too dry to swallow. I may prefer other documentaries this year, including similarly themed The Internet's Own Boy, but it deserves the acclaim and attention.
Very well-executed and revealing without being overly scare-mongering. This is the documentary which everyone should see, and which should be shown in every movie theater in every country, in a big scale.
It tells us part of the raw truth for where this world is going and I think there's a reason why this has gotten so small media attention.
I stumbled upon to this film through LP's other documentaries, if that wouldn't happen it would be less than likely I would've seen this - very important and informative - documentary ever.
Todays we live in the world of ignorance, where governments do what they do - without any transparency - and we just accept silently everything what is happening everywhere, in every country.
The governmental transparency globally is going to evolve to the way of secrecy and meanwhile our personal privacy is being invaded systematically and we can't do anything about if we wanna live normal life.
Isn't that wrong in your opinion? When reality overpass imagination Incredible journalism packed into a great documentary film.
Everyone needs to watch this. Wow it's hard to overstate the brilliance of Citizenfour. As someone who has held clearances an worked for the DoD, I always felt Snowden was a traitor.
Not any more. To me the Snowden story was an ethical dilemma: "do the ends justify the means? Snowden you swore an oath and you broke that oath: go to jail, It seemed as simple as that.
But what if you swear an oath supporting an organization sworn to protect and defend the Consstitution, and you find that said organization is systematically shredding the Constitution?
Onto the characters. What a set of brass ones! He could have easily have been murdered by the CIA but he eluded them. Laura Poitrous,Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill: thank you for risking your own personal well being and freedom and showing what real journalism is all about.
The emotion conveyed here is unreal. Like watching a horror film in slow motion where the killer is constantly in the room: only it's non fiction.
The fear and paranoia are palpable. Then at times it was laugh out loud funny. By the end the viewer is left thinking: "I've lost track of how many kinds of wrong this is.
To the Director of the film you will change hearts and minds here, and in the process perhaps save freedom itself. Hard to imagine what you'll do for an encore.
National Security Agency NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden, who exposed possibly the greatest intelligence leak of modern times with revelations that the U.
In when the leaks were exposed by the Guardian newspaper, Snowden had his movements filmed by Poitras.
Snowden confided in the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, and the three met up in Hong Kong to film Snowden's leak.
Snowden's leaks became the news story of this decade, even eclipsing Julian Assange's Wikileaks. Their Stellar Wind programme was an enormous metadata-mining system, stealth operations called Dishfire, XKeyscore, and Tempora allowed the U.
They even hacked the UN's video conferencing system, tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone calls seemed a trifling matter in comparison to the immense surveillance operations taking place.
Snowden is smart, eloquent, humble and surprisingly well glued together for a man who is about to become the most wanted man in the world by the American government.
Considering the magnitude of this story, everyone remains incredibly calm, not least Snowden! Its interesting to watch him, always reaffirming that the story is not about him when in reality it is, to begin with.
He didn't tell anyone, not even his partner of over a decade, who he knew would be placed in danger if he had. Under so much pressure, he seems so well-balanced, there's no histrionics, and he certainly doesn't play up to the camera.
You can see that Snowden doesn't want to be in this position, he knew his life will change for the worse, but he knows the world needs to see what is going on in front of us.
The magnitude of the surveillance was immense, near the end of the film we see the scared and paranoid Snowden and Greenwald exchanging written notes confirming revelations from a new source.
They show us that 1. The sad fact is that its cinematic release, a year after the revelations were aired, raises the question of what's really changed?
We still know so little, and it seems the status quo pervades. We don't really even know if the NSA, GCHQ and many others have stopped surveillance operations, so whoever you're calling or texting, or what websites or apps you're viewing, your privacy is probably being scrutinised.
Navaf 5 March From the time he he traveled to Hong Kong, the documentary follows actual footage that was taken of him and the collaborating Journalists meeting and talking about the extent of the Espionage and violation of privacy that NSA and GCHQ was undertaking.
In truth the true Hero here is Edward Snowden not any of the other Journalists, it took courage to give up your comfortable life to live a life on the run.
To be frank of all the leaked information leaked to the the media outlet Guardian, only a biased selected documents was published about, in my opinion insulting the efforts and ideals of what Edward Snowden stood for.
If even one of these privacy violations are on going and and you let it pass, remember you are the sheep being slowly led to the slaughter.
Speak out now. Doesn't disappoint, but I did come out of the cinema with a heavy heart. Contrary to popular expectations, the documentary does not elaborate on the illegal surveillance acts, but focuses on Edward Snowden the person.
Quite ironic as Snowden repeatedly said in the movie that he is "not the story" Based on his well-articulated presentation and some candid camera-work by the director, Snowden's selfless motive is on clear display throughout the movie.
The film also captures some tense moments during the days when Snowden was stuck in HK, which we have not seen on news interviews before.
The so far unanswerable question is whether he's a hero or a traitor. The Snowden exposed to the ever present harsh light of camera and mics seems completely at peace with himself as he considers the rough life he has elected as a whistleblower.
Indeed we are fortunate to see him at the most stressful point in his life being cool and level-headed. While Poitras makes sure we get to know him intimately, she never loses sight of the fact that this doc is about government spying.
Citizenfour is a fascinating, risky, and brave film for everyone who is interested in the challenges of truth telling.
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Namensräume Artikel Diskussion. Über eine genauere und bessere juristische Die Diplomatin Böses Spiel der ganzen Schritte v. Von Peter Richter. Die internationale Filmpremiere fand am Er wirkt eher wie eine Indiziensammlung. Ursprünglich erschien diese Besprechung beim deutschen Kinostart von "Citizenfour" im November Klar gibt es oft Trittbrettfahrer, die aus Leistungen anderer maximalen Kapital schlagen wollen, aber ich glaube weder die Filmer noch Snowden passen da irgendwie rein. Nach amerikanischem Urheberrecht sind die Argumente für Ute Katharina Kampowsky Veröffentlichung jedenfalls nicht haltbar. Ohne die Unterstützung dieser Organisationen wäre diese Dokumentation so vielleicht nicht möglich gewesen.Citizen Four Citizenfour Video
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