Snowden is a biographical drama about a former contract employee of the US National Security Agency (NSA), who made global headlines in June 2013 after sacrificing his life for the greater good and exposing secret government surveillance of phone and online data through the Guardian newspaper ordinary citizens and foreign high statesmen. The feature film about the whistleblower was directed by the legendary Olive Stone, who is no stranger to this type of film, as he already has biographical films JFK and Nixon.
The movie Snowden tells one of the greatest stories of our time about the most famous whistleblower in the world to Edward Snowden. The biographical drama is based on the book by British journalist Luke Harding The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man and books Time of the Octopus lawyer and professor Anatoly Kucheren.
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He got into the role of Snowden Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and his girlfriend Lindsay Mills gave a cute performance Shailene Woodley. In the film we find many other famous names of Hollywood such as Nicolas Cage, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans. The first trailer reads like a condensed summary of Snowden's career. He became an American by the age of 29 one of the most wanted men in the world, but time will tell if the film about him will also be one of the most visited.
Biographical drama, thriller
Snowden
(USA, 2015)
Director: Oliver Stone. They play: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Scott Eastwood, Melissa Leo, Timothy Olyphant, Zachary Quinto, Nicolas Cage, Tom Wilkinson.
In the cinema from December 25, 2015.
