Overview - War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary

Runtime: 119 minutes

Homepage: War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them

Budget

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Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • Polski

Production companies

  • Name: Apple Film Production

    Production country Poland

  • Name: Telewizja Polska

    Production country Poland

  • Name: Trigon Production

    Production country Slovakia

  • Name: ARTE

    Production country Germany

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.

Cast

  • Name: Ryszard Kukliński

    Character: Self

    Popularity: 0.3607