a5c7b9f00b The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc&#39;s top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law. This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dares to challenge the Soviet empire. While planning the maneuvers of the Warsaw Pact forces, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski has access to top secrets. He gets to know that the American nuclear counterattack against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. Thanks to his determination, he starts a long, lonely and psychologically exhausting cooperation with CIA. From that very moment the life of his family and his own is in constant dangerone careless move may lead to tragedy. Despite I live in Poland, I saw just a couple polish films in last 20 years. I was so disappointed with some of polish films I watched in 80&#39;s and early 90&#39;s that I completely stopped watching polish productions. Few ones I watched during 90&#39;s and 2000&#39;s were lame or just &quot;so-so&quot;. I especially loathed the way polish actors play and speak - it was unnatural, theatrical. <br/><br/>But since I was interested by real story depicted by Jack Strong, I give it a try and I must admit this film is really perfect. There is still a little bit of this annoying theatrical manner when polish actors speak, but it is just a tint, and probably this is completely not detectable by non polish speakers. The rest is great - very realistic to smallest details (I still perfectly remember 70&#39;s &amp; 80&#39;s during communist rule) Russians speak Russian, Poles speak Polish, Americans speak English. Filmed in real locations in real winter, with real snow. Real cars from 70, with real looking chases (and no CG or accelerated paces. Intelligent move for intelligent people in the same class like Argo or Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. Very refreshing experience after all those dumb nonsense full of CG served by Hollywood lately. <br/><br/>Let&#39;s hope this fill will be soon released on blu-ray, so more people outside Poland can enjoy this masterpiece. This film had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. There were so many shocking twists and turns I literally couldn&#39;t look away! The way director Wladyslaw Pasikowski shot the car chase scene made me feel like I was in the car with them. It&#39;s all around a solid movie and worth the watch. If you like foreign films, you&#39;ll love it. The director, Wladyslaw Pasikowski does an awesome job of portraying Polish life during The Cold War. You really get a sense of the urgency Jack Strong feels throughout the film and I don&#39;t think anyone could&#39;ve done a better job at doing that than Marcin Dorocinski. It was difficult to keep up with the Russian at some points, but the switching between that and English helped a lot.
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