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Jack Strong

Wladyslaw PASIKOWSKI

Poland2014 124min D-Cinema Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Polish Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski acquires US military secrets concerning a nuclear counter-strike. Realizing the threat to both his family and his Polish homeland, Kuklinski becomes a double agent: spying for both the Soviets and the US. His decision takes its toll on his family, so in a last drastic move to keep them safe, he defects with them to the US. A true story so much more moving than fiction.

Diretor

Wladyslaw PASIKOWSKI

W©©adys©©aw Pasikowski gained the greatest popularity and commercial success thanks to his second film - Pigs(1992), where he went far beyond the craft of gangster films, introducing a new aesthetics and a new type of a hero in Polish filmmaking. Pasikowski has often been compared to Quentin Tarantino due to the bloody reality of the gangster circles presented in his work. He names Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese and Pierre Melville as his masters.