The Dissident

2020 119 min ★ 7.3 Documentary

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.

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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

Details

Director

Bryan Fogel

Tagline

"The untold story of the murder that shook the world."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Revenue

$57,000

Production

Diamond Docs, Human Rights Foundation

Reviews

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

March 9, 2021

★ 6/10

The grisly murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and the subsequent cover-up by the Saudi government is explored in “The Dissident,” a complex and detailed documentary from director Bryan Fogel. Through CCTV footage, social media history, interviews with Jamal’s family and friends, and unprecedented access to video evidence from Turkish police,...

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rsanek

September 21, 2021

★ 9/10

Really well-done film. I saw the news stories but watching this does a good job of making you pause and realize how absolutely crazy it is that a state can just decide to straight murder somebody, and it's not even on their own soil. I agree that it is also insane that the Saudis can just decide to hack the richest man in the world, all with software designed and sold by a company in what's suppos...