The Fifth Estate

20132013
RR
2h 8m

Daniel Brühl and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate (2013)

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st centuryÂ’s most fiercely debated organization.

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A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debate... Read allA dramatic thriller based on real events that 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.A dramatic thriller based on real events that 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.

Director
- Bill Condon
Writers
- Daniel Domscheit-Berg(book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website")
- David Leigh(book "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy")
- Luke Harding(book "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy")
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations

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Behind the Scenes

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Behind the Scenes

Daniel Brühl and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate (2013)

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Daniel Brühl and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate (2013)

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate (2013)

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Moritz Bleibtreu, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate (2013)

Director
- Bill Condon
Writers
- Daniel Domscheit-Berg(book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website")
- David Leigh(book "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy")
- Luke Harding(book "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy")
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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 whistle-blowers 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? —DreamWorks Pictures

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Taglines
- You can't expose the world's secrets without exposing yourself.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for language and some violence
Parents guide

Trivia
Julian Assange emailed Benedict Cumberbatch to ask him to not to participate in the film.

Goofs
The Julian Assange interview at the Ecuadorian embassy has the Colombian flag in the background.

Quotes
Julian Assange: If you want the truth, no one is going to tell you the truth, they're going to tell you their version. So if you want the truth, you have to seek it out for yourself. In fact that's where power lies, in your willingness to look beyond this story, any story. And as long as you keep searching, you are dangerous to them. That's what they're afraid of: you. It's all about you. And a little bit about me too.

Connections
Featured in The Agenda with Tom Bradby: Episode #4.1 (2013)

Soundtracks
Stompbox (Spor Remix)
Written by Liam Black, Leon Harris and Daniel Arnold
Performed by The Qemists
Courtesy of Ninja Tune

Top review

5/10

Should Be about the Truth

"The Fifth Estate" is a film made by Dreamworks apparently with the intention of showing Julian Assange as an egocentric villain and seems to manipulate the truth about the role of the Weakleaks. On the contrary, his unfaithful and ambitious partner Daniel Domscheit-Berg a.k.a. Daniel Schmitt is depicted like a rational adviser and the hero, destroying the whistleblower information and data of the Weakleaks to protect the "innocent spies and informers". The film is based on a book written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg; therefore totally partial about the truth without showing the side of Julian Assange. I am not expert in this subject and I have just the common sense of reading and listening to the news about Julian Assange and the Wikileaks. But the film seems to be manipulative and depicting one side of the truth only. Therefore as a documentary, it is worthless; however a thriller, it is engaging and has good performances. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "O Quinto Poder" ("O Quinto Poder")

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Budget
- $28,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $3,255,008
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,673,351
- Oct 20, 2013
Gross worldwide
- $9,058,564

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Runtime
2 hours 8 minutes
Color
- Color
- Black and White
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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