This programme is part of the Amsterdam Polish Film Festival. You can access this programme with:
– Single ticket: film Jack Strong
– Day ticket: Mr. Jones + talk and film Jack Strong
This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dared to challenge the Soviet Union from deep within its ranks.
In the midst of the Cold War, Ryszard Kuklinski, a colonel in the Polish army, discovers that Poland was the target of the US plans for a nuclear counterattack.
Ready to risk his life in order to keep the world from destroying itself, he starts a long and psychologically exhausting cooperation with CIA. From that moment his and the life of his family are in constant danger as one careless move may lead to tragedy.
About Amsterdam Polish Film Festival
This year the Amsterdam Polish Film Festival, organised by Polish Culture NL in collaboration with De Balie, focuses on the history and current developments in Central Europe, through films dealing with gruesome communist history and conversations shedding light on the impact of the Ukrainian war on the local population.
The Amsterdam Polish Film Festival is co-sponsored by:
More Polish Film Festival
De Balie x Amsterdam Polish Film Festival: Mr. Jones + talk
Based on real events, the dramatic thriller “Gareth Jones” chronicles a British investigative journalist as he travels deep into the Soviet Union to uncover an international conspiracy.
De Balie x Amsterdam Polish Film Festival: Klondike
In 2014 soon-to-be parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, disputed territory in the early days of the Donbas war.
De Balie x Amsterdam Polish Film Festival: The Hamlet Syndrome + talk
After the film, we engage in an in-depth conversation on the impact of war in Ukraine on people and their personal lives.