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The Killing of a Journalist

""An attack on a journalist is an attack on us all!""

2022-08-23
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DocumentaryCrime
A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret murder case file to the murdered journalist’s colleagues. It includes the computers and encrypted communications of the assassination’s alleged mastermind, a businessman closely connected to the country’s ruling party. Trawling these encrypted messages, journalists discover that their country has been captured by corrupt oligarchs, judges, and law enforcement officials. A reckoning awaits.

Director

Matt Sarnecki

Editor

Janus Billeskov Jansen

Producer

Signe Byrge Sørensen

Associate Producer

Julia Love Babušcák

Director of Photography

Anna Smoroňová

Sound Designer

Marek Poledna

corruption politics journalism protest press freedom political corruption investigative journalism investigative journalist slovakia central europe freedom of the press

Status

Released

Countries

  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • United States of America

Companies

  • Final Cut for Real
  • OCCRP
  • Frame Films
  • WDR/Arte

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