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Citizenfour

2014
United States / Germany
Documentary
114 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

short description

Documentary about the NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Cast

Participation: Edward Snowden; Glenn Greenwald; William Binney; Jeremy Scahill; Ewen MacAskill; Ben Wizner; Wolfgang Kaleck; Julian Assange; Jacob Appelbaum; Rainer Staudhammer

Direction

Director: Laura Poitras

Writing

Screenplay: Laura Poitras

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Katy Scoggin; Laura Poitras; Kirsten Johnson; Trevor Paglen

colour matching: Steffen Paul

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Mathilde Bonnefoy

Sound editor: Alexander Buck

Sound: Laura Poitras; Judy Karp

Sound design: Frank Kruse

Foley artist: Carsten Richter

Audio mixing: Matthias Lempert

Special effects: Kilian Manning

Music

Music: Nine Inch Nails (»Ghosts I & Ghosts III«)

Production

Producer: Laura Poitras; Mathilde Bonnefoy; Dirk Wilutzky

Co-Producer: Katy Scoggin; Kirsten Johnson

Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh; Diane Weyermann; Jeff Skoll; Sheila Nevins; David Menschel; Tom Quinn

Editorial department: Sonja Scheider; Barbara Biermann

Post-Production: Mandy Rahn

Companies

Production company: Praxis Films

in Co-Production: Bertha Foundation; The BRITDOC Foundation; Channel Four; Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR); Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)

in Co-Operation: Participant Media; HBO Home Box Office, Inc.