Meet the Censors (2020)

8.5/10 99 min Documentary

Overview

From a Kafkaesque office for social media in Germany and on to Sudan, and to conversations with an Iranian Ayatollah, an Indian film censor and critical journalists in China. The Norwegian Håvard Fossum has travelled the world to understand what censorship is, and how censors work, both in theory and in practice.

Cast

Robert Darnton

Self

John Kiriakou

Self

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