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The Dissident(2020)
Status: Released
Date: 2020-12-25
72%
120 Votes
Time: 1h 59m
The untold story of the murder that shook the world.
Overview:
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
Languages: Turkish, English, Arabic.
Countries:
Turkey,
United States of America
Revenue: $57,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The Dissident
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jamal Khashoggi
Self (archive footage)
Omar Abdulaziz
Self - Interviewee
Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud
Self (Footage)
İrfan Fidan
Self - Public Prosecutor
Agnès Callamard
Self - Interviewee
Hatice Cengiz
Self - Interviewee
John O. Brennan
Self - Interviewee
Fahrettin Altun
Self - Interviewee
Anthony J. Ferrante
Self - Interviewee
Abdulhamit Gul
Self - Interviewee
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