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The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

10/10/2024

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1hr 18min

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Documentary

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

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Jamelle Bouie
  • Kirill Voloshin
  • Jacob Geller
  • Kenneth Berris
  • Kirk B.R. Woller

    Directors

  • Clayton Ashley
  • Simone de Rochefort

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Polygon

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Jamelle Bouie

    Narration

    Kirill Voloshin

    Oleg Kalugin (voiceover)

    Jacob Geller

    John Prados (voiceover)

    Kirk B.R. Woller

    Self

    Maya Vinokour

    Self

    Andrew Hammond

    Self

    Justin McElroy

    Self

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