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The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

2024 78min EN

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.

director: Clayton Ashley, Simone de Rochefort

cast: Jamelle Bouie, Kirill Voloshin, Jacob Geller, Ken Berris

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Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie

Narration

Kirill Voloshin

Kirill Voloshin

Oleg Kalugin (voiceover)

Jacob Geller

Jacob Geller

John Prados (voiceover)

Ken Berris

Ken Berris

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Kirk B.R. Woller

Kirk B.R. Woller

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Carl Colby

Carl Colby

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Maya Vinokour

Maya Vinokour

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Andrew Hammond

Andrew Hammond

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Justin McElroy

Justin McElroy

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