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Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012)

Underground: The Julian Assange Story poster
Directed by
Robert Connolly
Genre
drama film, biographical film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
M
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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This film dramatizes the early life of Julian Assange and his involvement with hacking in the 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses on his personal journey and the events that shaped his later activism.

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What happens

Underground: The Julian Assange Story is an Australian television film produced for Network Ten. It premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and aired on Network Ten on 7 October 2012. The film draws its title from Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange, but the film bears little relation to the book itself, which catalogues the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British hackers during the 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself. The film was not approved by Julian Assange, Wikileaks or any other member of the Assange family, and there was no collaboration with the Assanges or Wikileaks during the making of the film. However, Julian Assange subsequently had "a very favourable response to the movie". Filmed in and around Melbourne, the film was written and directed by Robert Connolly and produced by Matchbox Pictures' Helen Bowden, with Tony Ayres and Rick Maier serving as Executive Producers. It stars Alex Williams as Julian Assange, alongside Rachel Griffiths, Anthony LaPaglia and Laura Wheelwright. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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