Assange movie portrays hero as cold war rebel
A car passes through a foggy, forest. In the back seat, memories wash through a floppy-haired teenaged boy's mind. He recalls another night drive, one on which his mother spirited him away before a stepfather could despatch him to live on a creepy cult's hidden commune.
Years later the family emerges from the same car and unpacks its belongings in a house the mother proclaims “cannot be seen from the road”. The teenager opens his suitcase and removes his prize possession: a Commodore 64.
Thus opens UNDERGROUND - The Julian Assange Story, an Australian dramatisation of Julian Assange's early life that debuted at the Toronto Film Festival and will go to air for the first time this Sunday.
