CinemaOSMovie · 2024 · 1h 18m · NR

The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game.

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In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game. The Great Game traces how both men rose to the tops of their fields following World War II, before falling out of favor with their respectives agencies — on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. For Kalugin, a growing discontent with the KGB’s treatment of Russians radicalized him against the institution. Meanwhile William Colby, an OSS operative and the CIA’s man on the ground in Vietnam, was fired by President Ford after testifying before Congress about controversial CIA programs like MKULTRA and CoIntelPro. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, both living on American soil, Colby and Kalugin played themselves in Spycraft, a multi-million dollar game that was among the most advanced of its time — and is now almost entirely forgotten.

Directed byClayton Ashley, Simone de Rochefort

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Runtime
1h 18m
Language
EN
Released
October 10, 2024
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Polygon

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9 credited
Starring

Jamelle Bouie

Narration

Kirill Voloshin

Oleg Kalugin (voiceover)

Jacob Geller

John Prados (voiceover)

Kenneth Berris

Self

Kirk B.R. Woller

Kirk B.R. Woller

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Carl Colby

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Maya Vinokour

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Andrew Hammond

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Justin McElroy

Justin McElroy

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Creative team
Directed by
Clayton Ashley
Simone de Rochefort
Written by
Clayton Ashley
Simone de Rochefort
Produced by
Simone de Rochefort

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