„War Games” at IDFA Festival
Dariusz Jabłoński’s documentary “War Games” will open the most important international documentary film festival IDFA in Amsterdam. It will be shown within the frames of The Best Full-Length Documentary Film Competition.
During this year’s edition of the Festival, which lasts from 19 to 29 November, the film about Ryszard Kukliński will have its world premiere. Dariusz Jabłoński has already been successful in Amsterdam. In 1998, he received the main prize of the Festival, Joris Ivens Award, for “Fotoamator”
Co-financed by Polish Institute of Film Art motion picture “War Games” tells the story of Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, who during the Cold War gave the US intelligence over 40 thousand secret documents relating to the actions of the Warsaw Pact. The film tries to find the answer to the questions about the motives of his actions and the price he had to pay. The film doesn’t show Kukliński himself, but often for the first time, the witnesses of his actions and unique documents, cleared in connection to the film. For the film, the director conducted interviews with the most important politicians of the Cold War period, who were involved in Colonel Kukliński’s matter, among others with Lech Wałęsa, general Wojciech Jaruzelski and the then chief of the Soviet army, general Wiktor Kulikow.
The director, depicting the historical situation, refers to the computer games style, which makes the Cold War conflict looks equally horrifying and unreal.
More information about the Festival: www.idfa.nl