We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story

Movie
German title	We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story
Original title	We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2013
length	130 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Alex Gibney
script	Alex Gibney
production	Alexis Bloom , Marc Shmuger
music	Will Bates
camera	Maryse Alberti
cut	Andy Grieve
occupation
Julian Assange : as himself (archive footage) Adrian Lamo : as himself Bradley Manning : As Himself (archive footage) James Ball : as himself Michael V. Hayden : as himself Timothy Douglas Webster : as himself Smári McCarthy : as himself

We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks story is a documentary directed by Alex Gibney from the year 2013. The film deals with the emergence of of Julian Assange founded unveiling platform WikiLeaks and links them with the life story of US soldier Bradley Manning , who in May 2010, was arrested on suspicion of copying videos and documents and leaking them to WikiLeaks.

content

The computer worm "WANK" , which emerged in 1989 and attacked the NASA network , is represented as the work of Australian hackers, including Julian Assange. The film then shows the further development of Assange up to the founding of Wikileaks in 2006, as well as the main publications of WikiLeaks such as the documents of the Icelandic Kaupthing Bank (2009) or reports on toxic waste in the Ivory Coast (2009).

The revelations of the air strikes in Baghdad on July 12, 2007 , in which around twelve people were killed, are a central theme . PFC Bradley Manning, allegedly responsible for the publications , then confided in a chat to the informant Adrian Lamo . Lamo informed the US State Security that Manning was arrested on May 26, 2010.

After the Swedish authorities brought rape allegations against Julian Assange in the fall of 2010, Great Britain looked into extraditing Assange to Sweden. After all legal means against extradition to Sweden had been exhausted, Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in June 2012 and asked for political asylum there, which was granted in August 2012. Since then, the WikiLeaks founder has lived in the Ecuadorian embassy.

reception

The film received mostly positive feedback from the critics. Thus, rotten tomatoes an average rating of 91% from 81 reviews; 75% of the visitors rated the film positively. Metacritic has an average rating of 76% based on 20 reviews and an average user rating of 6.5 out of 10 points. This is how the critic Thomas Zimmer judged:

"As is so often the case when documentary filmmakers try to clear up complex issues, in the case of We Steal Secrets - The WikiLeaks Story, it is not just the general facts, but above all the individuals involved that ultimately bring the story to life."

- Thomas Zimmer : serial junkies

Julian Assange, who disagreed with the way it was portrayed in the film, provided the script with his own comments and counter-statements in order to publish this version on the Internet.

Web links

• We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks story in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• By Julian Assange annotated transcript of the film (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release Certificate for We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 692 K).
2. ↑ We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks at rottentomatoes.com, accessed June 9, 2019.
3. ↑ We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks at metacritic.com, accessed June 9, 2019.
4. ↑ Thomas Zimmer: We Steal Secrets - The WikiLeaks Story: Film Review . Serienjunkies.de . July 11, 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
5. ↑ Lars-Olav Beier : The smallest largest enemy. in: Der Spiegel No. 24/2013, p. 138 f.