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Mediastan
Mediastan is a 2013 documentary film about the 2010 United States diplomatic cables leak, directed by Johannes Wahlström and produced by Julian Assange, Rebecca O'Brien and Lauren Dark. Its release was timed to challenge that of "The Fifth Estate", a film dramatization about WikiLeaks which Assange has described as a "propaganda attack" against the organization.
The suffix -stan ( "-stān") is Persian for "place of" or "country" from Indo-Iranian "*stanam", "place."
unfocused, uncertain of how to deal with its slippery enigma." "Rolling Stone"'s Peter Travers enjoyed the dynamic between Cumberbatch and Brühl, but disliked the focus of the film's subplot. Alan Rusbridger, who worked closely with Assange and is portrayed by Peter Capaldi in the film, describes Cumberbatch as "stunning as Assange. The voice and the slightly jerky, stiff, awkward demeanour are just right."
See also.
- "" — a documentary regarding the history of Wikileaks
- "Mediastan