Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, the movie The fifth estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. We take a look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?"
Director: Bill Condon, the screenplay is an adaptation by Josh Singer by the books written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website), Luke Harding (WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy) and David Leigh.
Release date October 18, 2013.
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch (Julian Assange), Alicia Vikander (Anke), Carice van Houten (Birgitta Jónsdóttir), Stanley Tucci (James Boswell), Laura Linney (Sarah Shaw), Anthony Mackie (Sam Coulson), Daniel Brühl (Daniel Domscheit-Berg), Dan Stevens (Ian Katz), David Thewlis (Nick Davies), Peter Capaldi (Alan Rusbridger), Moritz Bleibtreu (Marcus), Hera Hilmar (Wikileaks Staffer), Michael Jibson (Irritated Reporter), Jamie Blackley (Ziggy), Jeany Spark (Wired Reporter).
