Snowden in the cinema – Cologne Rundschau

The girlfriend of Edward Snowden: Laura Poitras

The most wanted man in America divides the asylum in Moscow now with his girlfriend. This is one of the insights that are the new documentary “Citizen Four” in the life of Edward Snowden. In addition, the film has a second “whistleblower”. Disclosed From Dirk Hautkapp

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Edward Snowden has never complained about the living conditions in his Russian asylum – with the exception of the missing contacts to family and friends. But since July is the most wanted man in America, who shook up the world with his revelations about the voracious data octopus “National Security Agency” (NSA) in the early summer of 2013, no longer alone in a foreign land. Lindsay Mills, his longtime partner, with whom he Washington and later lived in Hawaii only at the gates, tells Snowden in Moscow life in a foreign land.

The young dancer is in the new documentary “Citizen Four” to see the side of the former intelligence employee. The two-hour work made at the first New York Film Festival on Friday furore. Has rotated the film Laura Poitras, who was flown together with the journalist Glenn Greenwald its time to Hong Kong where Snowden comprehensively provided information for the first time about the excessive monitoring programs of NSAs in international data and voice traffic.

The new documentary about Edward Snowden gives deep insights. Photo: picture alliance / dpa

The filmmaker and artist living temporarily in Berlin and is one of the closest confidants Snowden, concealed in the film not their sympathy for the man who gave up his private life in the moment when he made public the doings of the NSA.

“Citizen Four” is the code name that Snowden used at first contact. But Snowden is no longer the only insider. Like the movie for the first time officially disclosed, there is a second “whistleblower” in the American intelligence apparatus. As Glenn Greenwald Snowden the news in Moscow tells – for fear of eavesdropping, he writes the information on a sheet of paper – which accused the U.S. government of treason Data Analyst looks visibly stunned to boot. The identity of Snowden II remains secret for now. On November 6 is “Citizen Four” in Germany in the cinemas.