Jack Strong

The film is based on the true story of Ryszard Kuklinski (Marcin Dorocinski), a Polish Army colonel who spied for the American Central Intelligence Agency during the height of the Cold War. The title of the film, Jack Strong, was Kukli?ski's secret agent pseudonym. Kuklinski -who passed top secret Warsaw Pact documents to the CIA between 1972 and 1981- was one of the most controversial figures in Polish Post-World War II history. Hailed as a global hero, Kuklinski single-handedly declared and waged a secret war against Communist oppression, risking his and his family's life for the sake of national security. Pressured by his own conscience and by an increasing threat of a nuclear holocaust, he realized that the only way to save what's left of his exhausted country is to go undercover. From a soldier blindly carrying out orders he turned into a spy working for the US government. Communist called him a traitor, Western leaders a direct cause of the collapse of the Soviet Bloc.