Dariusz Jabłoński’s War Games (Gry Wojenne) is on the programme of the Munich DOK.fest in the DOK.International Official Selection.
Earlier this month it was shown at the Toronto Hot Docs in the World Showcase Hot Docs section.
Jabloński’s film is a portrait of Polish colonel Ryszard Kukliński who passed on to the CIA over 40,000 strategic documents from the Warsaw Pact between 1972 and 1981. They included plans for a military onslaught on the West and for the imposition of martial law in Poland to crush the Solidarity movement. Shortly after the declaration of martial law in December 1981, Kuklinski was extracted from Poland by the CIA, along with his family. In 1984, a military court in Warsaw sentenced him to death. The sentence was annulled after the fall of communism. Kuklinski died in Florida in 2004.
War Games took director Dariusz Jabłoński five years of painstaking research. It includes interviews with high-ranking CIA generals, former US presidential security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Polish president Lech Walesa, Polish generals Jaruzelski and Kiszczak, commander of Warsaw Pact forces Soviet Marshal Kulikov, Kuklinski’s co-workers and friends, and his widow.
The film was to have included a conversation with Ryszard Kuklinski but he died several days before the shoot began. (mk)