War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 23, 2009

Original language

Polish

Spoken languages

polish

Countries

Slovakia, Poland

Production

ARTE,Apple Film Production,Telewizja Polska,Trigon Production,Apple Film Production, Telewizja Polska, Trigon Production, ARTE

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1415201