War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them

A uniquely constructed portrait of the Polish Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski who provided the CIA with more than 40000 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 colonels wheelchairbound wife Jablonski agrees to take care of his ashes He talks with a considerable number of closely involved exservicemen from the US head of espionage General William E Odom to the Warsaw Pact CommanderinChief Viktor Kulikov the Polish General Wojciech Jaruzelski and former Polish President Lech Walesa