The documentary, tentatively titled “Snowden’s Great Escape,” features two new interviews with the whistleblower that have not been previously broadcast. News of the documentary was first reported by RealScreen.com.
The film is described as being a fast-paced documentary thriller, and focuses on Snowden’s escape from Hong Kong to Moscow after leaking a cache of secret NSA documents to journalist Greenwald and filmmaker Poitras.
The doc promises to expose “how close [Russian leader Vladimir] Putin was to having Snowden deported from Moscow, as he landed at Sheretmetyevo Airport,” according to DR television.
Mette Hoffmann Meyer, head of documentaries for Denmark’s DR, told realscreen: “Snowden’s Great Escape is a breathtaking account of the NSA’s frantic search for Snowden and the brilliant plan that enabled his remarkable disappearing act.
“The film is the story of a young man who has just given journalists an explosive cache of documents exposing the power and reach of the NSA,” she adds. “As they return home to publish his shocking revelations, he is left behind.
“Far from being a whistleblower hero, we now learn that Edward Snowden was in fact broke and very much alone.”She added that the film is not a “fly-on-the-wall” documentary. “It documents one of the largest manhunts in modern U.S. history,” she said.
The 80-minute program has being co-produced by German broadcaster NDR and Danish network DR and focuses mostly on Snowden’s exile from the United States to Hong Kong and ultimately to Russia, where the whistleblower has lived under temporary political asylum for more than a year.
RealScreen reports the documentary will include additional interviews with former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, former NSA director Michael Hayden, Bolivian president Evo Morales, reporter Ewan MacAskill and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The documentary premiered January 13 ,2105
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