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

(16.09.2009)