“The Six Billion Dollar Man”: Julian Assange at Cannes premiere

He seemed calm, while the photographers snipped excitedly in stormy rain-in the end there was even applause,: We are talking about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (53), who had traveled to the special demonstration of the documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man” as part of the Cannes film festival (13th to 24th May). He posed hand in hand with his wife Stella, arm in arm with director Eugene Jarecki and human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson and producer Kathleen Fournier.

According to a benevolent portrait of the Australian Julian Assange from the Wikileaks beginnings to his decades of legal disputes and the release in June a year ago.

It is therefore shown, among other things, how Assange returns to Australia, but without a detailed interview with him about everything that happened. “I didn’t think it was dignified to hold Julian a microphone in the face,” explains the US director. “He is in the film and he speaks in the film in a way that I think captures what his resuscitation means when he gets the chance to be with his family and to consider the world as a free man,” he continues. “We capture a little bit of it in the film, but we are careful,” added Jarecki.

The film, which is created as an international high-tech thriller, uses the privileged access to Wikileaks material and never previously shown to examine the increasingly precarious position of journalists.

How, the film should be shown at the Sundance Film Festival this year. However, he was withdrawn weeks before the festival because Jarecki said that he had to incorporate “significant new and unexpected developments” into the film before releasing him.

“The Six Billion Dollar Man” will celebrate his world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21 in the Special Screenings section. Jarecki announced: “I am very proud to be able to say that Julian Assange will be on the red carpet.” And further: “He will come together with the President of Ecuador, who granted him asylum at the London embassy. Interestingly, they have never met.”