War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them

War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 23, 2009

Runtime

1h 59m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

80%

Original Title

Gry wojenne

Production Companies

Trigon Production, Polish Film Institute

Director

Dariusz Jabłoński

Description

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.