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War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them (2009)
Directed by Dariusz Jabłoński
Documentary · 1h 59m
A uniquely constructed portrait of the Polish Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, who provided the CIA with more than 40,000 strategic documents from the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. Was he a traitor, or the savior of Poland? The Polish documentary filmmaker Dariusz Jablonski begins his story of the colonel in 2004, when he was supposed to interview him for the very first time. It turns out that Kuklinski has just died, and at the request of the colonel's wheelchair-bound wife, Jablonski agrees to take care of his ashes. He talks with a considerable number of closely involved ex-servicemen -- from the U.S. head of espionage General William E. Odom to the Warsaw Pact Commander-in-Chief Viktor Kulikov, the Polish General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and former Polish President Lech Walesa.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Dariusz Jabłoński
- Screenplay
- Dariusz Jabłoński
- Director of Photography
- Tomasz Michałowski
- Original Music Composer
- Michał Lorenc
- Editor
- Milenia Fiedler, Bartosz Pietras
- Producer
- Violetta Kamińska, Dariusz Jabłoński, Izabela Wójcik
Details
- Original title
- Gry wojenne
- Release date
- 2009-01-23
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- PL
- Spoken languages
- Polish
- Countries
- Poland, Slovakia, Germany
- Production
- Apple Film Production, Telewizja Polska, Trigon Production, ARTE