Ithaka

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

John Shipton

self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Julian Assange

Self (archive footage)

Age : 52 | Popularity : 3%

Donald Trump

Self (archive footage)

Age : 78 | Popularity : 22%

Theresa May

Self (archive footage)

Age : 67 | Popularity : 7%

Daniel Ellsberg

Self (archive footage)

Age : 93 | Popularity : 3%

Boris Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Age : 60 | Popularity : 5%

Edward Snowden

Self (archive footage)

Age : 41 | Popularity : 5%

Joe Rogan

Self (archive footage)

Age : 56 | Popularity : 8%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Executive Producer	Roger Savage
	Producer	Gabriel Shipton Adrian Devant
	Production Manager	Lidia Ciszewska
Sound	Music	Brian Eno
	Music Supervisor	Andrew Kotatko
Editing	Editor	Karen Johnson
	Assistant Editor	Phoenix Chisholm
Camera	Director of Photography	Niels Ladefoged
Writing	Writer	Ben Lawrence
Directing	Director	Ben Lawrence
Crew	Commissioning Editor	Stephen Oliver
	Post Production Supervisor	Octavia Mansfield Schweitzer
	Thanks	Nico Lathouris John Pilger Paula Jensen Dan Read
Department	Role	Name

Join the discussion