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Fifth Estate (The)
- Director: Bill Condon
- Writer: Daniel Domscheit-Berg; David Leigh
- Producer: Leifur B. Dagfinnsson; Hilde De Laere
CGiii Comment
Difficult...it's a one-sided story by those with a grudge.
Cumberbatch is Assange - you have to pinch yourself sometimes...to be reminded that this is a film...
Bradley Manning is mentioned very briefly with a fleeting glimpse of his cheery face - not so cheery now.
It has its moments...definitely watchable.
As to its veracity...definitely questionable.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?
Cast & Characters
Peter Capaldi as Alan Rusbridger;
David Thewlis as Nick Davies;
Anatole Taubman as Holger Stark;
Alexander Beyer as Marcel Rosenbach;
Philip Bretherton as Bill Keller;
Dan Stevens as Ian Katz;
Daniel Bruhl as Daniel Berg;
Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange;
Jamie Blackley as Ziggy;
Ludger Pistor as Supervisor