War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them (2009) [N/A]
Featuring:
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Walter Lang, William E. Odom
Written by:
Dariusz Jablonski
Directed by:
Dariusz Jablonski
Release Date:
January 23, 2009
Original Title:
Gry wojenne
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Polish Film Institute
Trigon Production
Production Countries:
Poland | Slovakia
Ratings / Certifications:
PL: 12
Runtime: 119
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.
A story about Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a talented strategist who became not only privy to the most heavily guarded strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact in the 1970s, but in fact drew up those plans himself. Had it not been for the information that Kuklinski passed on to Americans, perhaps now all of Europe would be licking its wounds after a nuclear cataclysm. "
