Name: The Dissident
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-12-25
Duration: 119 min
Cast: Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz, Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, İrfan Fidan, Agnès Callamard

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The Dissident plot summary

The untold story of the murder that shook the world.

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.

Details

Release date: December 25, 2020
Runtime: 1h 59m
Genres: Documentary
Directed by: Bryan Fogel
Country: Türkiye, United States
TMDB rating: 7.3 / 10 · 122 votes

The Dissident trailer

Cast

Jamal KhashoggiSelf (archive footage)
Omar AbdulazizSelf - Interviewee
Prince Mohammed bin Salman al SaudSelf (Footage)
İrfan FidanSelf - Public Prosecutor
Agnès CallamardSelf - Interviewee
Hatice CengizSelf - Interviewee
John O. BrennanSelf - Interviewee
Fahrettin AltunSelf - Interviewee
Anthony J. FerranteSelf - Interviewee
Abdulhamit GulSelf - Interviewee

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