The movie follows carrolls attempt to reclaim his personal information by taking up the fight in britain, where privacy laws are stronger than here. In the whistleblower which opens this weekend, rachel weisz portrays a u. The whistleblower reveals a truth more chilling than fiction. With rachel weisz, monica bellucci, vanessa redgrave, david strathairn. Rachel weisz in the whistleblower, on sex trafficking the new. The whistleblower is a 2010 canadiangermanamerican biographical crime drama film directed by larysa kondracki and starring rachel weisz. The movie the whistleblower stars rachel weisz as kathryn bolkovac, a police officer from nebraska.
William binney, kirk wiebe, edward loomis, diane roark and thomas drake case. In the whistleblower which opens this weekend, rachel weisz. Rosenberg is executive director of open the government, a nonpartisan group advocating for government transparency and accountability. The whistleblower premiered on september 2010, at the toronto international film festival, and samuel goldwyn films distributed the film in theaters in the united states. By alexandra heilbron on july 29, 2011 10 comments. The movie also features interviews with christopher wylie, a former cambridge analytica employee who blew the whistle on the company, exposing the way it harvested and then weaponized data to influence elections and grassroots movements. Kondracki and eilis kirwan wrote the screenplay, which was inspired by the story of kathryn bolkovac, a nebraska police officer who was recruited as a united nations peacekeeper for dyncorp international in postwar bosnia and herzegovina in 1999. Jessica bennett talks with kathryn bolkovac, the woman who inspired the film. The true story behind the whistleblower celebrity gossip and. For whistleblower kathy bolkovac, life hasnt exactly turned out like it did for.
The film was advertised as a fictionalization of events occurring during the late 1990s. Review keira knightley plays a reallife whistleblower. Nsas decision to use trailblazer, a nsa electronic surveillance program that was a billiondollar failure over thinthread, a less costly inhouse program with builtin privacy protections for united states citizens. In her latest film, the whistleblower, rachel weisz portrays the reallife united nations peacekeeper who was fired after uncovering a.
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