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Julian Assange's internet dating adventures to be made into a film
25 June 2012 9:43 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news
Acclaimed documentary-maker, Cyril Tuschi, is to direct a film about a series of fictional dates involving the Wikileaks founder, to be shot in Germany
Cyril Tuschi, the director of an acclaimed documentary about imprisoned Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is to make a fictional film imagining a trio of romantic assignations involving Julian Assange.
Alongside British screenwriter Michael Gaster, whose credits include the 2010 short Underdogs, Tuschi is working on an English-language script entitled Leaks Three Dates With Harry Harrison. Co-producer Jan Krger told Screen International:
"Cyril came up with the fact that Assange had been involved in internet dating using the screen name of Harry Harrison. So, the film recounts three dates with Harry Harrison taking place in 2010. One date is in Iceland when he was establishing
a organisation that would change journalism, democracy and the internet.
Then we jump to the second date with a fan in Sweden where he