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Citizenfour

7.7(1,465)20141h 53m4

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$3M
Language
English
  • biography
  • national security agency (nsa)
  • woman director
  • investigative journalism
  • whistleblower
  • surveillance state
  • observational documentary
  • mass surveillance
  • fbi surveillance

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew York Film Festival10 Oct 2014
    • TheatricalR10 Oct 2014
    • Theatrical (limited)R24 Oct 2014
    • PremiereDOC NYC18 Nov 2014
    • TVRHBO23 Feb 2015
  • United KingdomGB

    • Premiere15BFI London Film Festival17 Oct 2014
    • Theatrical (limited)1531 Oct 2014
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical (limited)M12 Feb 2015
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical (limited)R10 Oct 2014
    • PremiereKamloops Film Festival7 Mar 2015
  • ArgentinaAR

    • PremiereBuenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema16 Apr 2015
  • AustriaAT

    • Digital / OTTAA1 Jan 2015
  • Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA

    • PremiereSarajevo Film Festival16 Aug 2015
  • BulgariaBG

    • PremiereSofia Film Festival12 Mar 2015
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereShanghai International Film Festival17 Jun 2015
    • PremiereGuangzhou International Documentary Film Festival5 Dec 2015
  • DenmarkDK

    • PremiereCPH:DOX11 Nov 2014
  • FinlandFI

    • PremiereDocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival31 Jan 2015
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical4 Mar 2015

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Citizenfour was released on 10 October 2014.

Audience reviews

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    Andres Gomez

    4/16/2015

    7/10

    The documentary is good and the story telling is easy to follow but I felt that it was too artificially turned into a spying movie ... even when it is the closest to a real spying movie, but it doesn't have to recall fiction. In any case, I think the positive reviews and the importance of the documentary is much more because of what Snowden had to say and tell us about US' NSA, not that much about the documentary …

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