War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them
Gry wojenne, Poland, Slovak Republic, 2009, 113 min, 35 mm, HD, History, Politics, Portrait
"War Games" is a story about a man whom historians consider as the most important spy of the cold war era. The main character of Dariusz Jabloński’s documentary is Ryszard Kukliński (pseudonym: Jack Strong), a colonel in headquarters of the Polish Army (Ludowe Wojsko Polskie) in the ‘70s. Between 1972 and 1981 he handed over to the West over 40 thousand pages of the top secret Warsaw Pact documents. Some people claim that if it wasn’t for those documents, maybe all Europe would be licking their wounds after the worldwide nuclear cataclysm. Americans see him as a hero, Russians – as a traitor, Poles are divided...
Director:
Dariusz Jablonski
Producer:
Izabela Wojcik, Dariusz Jablonski
Screenplay:
Dariusz Jablonski
Director of photography:
Tomasz Michałowski
Editor:
Milenia Fiedler, Bartek Pietras
Music:
Michał Lorenc
Co Producer:
Patrik Pašš
World Sales:
Esther van Messel
Languages:
Polish
Subtitles:
English
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Hot Docs 2010, Canada
IDFA 2009, The Netherlands
Dok.Fest Munich 2010, Germany
Melbourne IFF 2010, Australia
RIDM Montreal 2010, Canada
Bergen IFF 2010, Norway
Art.Fest Slovakia 2010
Cinequest 2011, USA
Media Plus Programme;
Ministry of Culture Slovakia