The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft (2024)
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.
Directors: Clayton Ashley, Simone de Rochefort.
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Jamelle Bouie as Narration |
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Kirill Voloshin as Oleg Kalugin (voiceover) |
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Jacob Geller as John Prados (voiceover) |
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Kenneth Berris as Self |
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Kirk B.R. Woller as Self |
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Carl Colby as Self |
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Maya Vinokour as Self |
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Andrew Hammond as Self |
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Justin McElroy as Self |
| Directing | Clayton Ashley | Director |
| Directing | Simone de Rochefort | Director |
| Writing | Clayton Ashley | Writer |
| Writing | Simone de Rochefort | Writer |
| Editing | Clayton Ashley | Editor |
| Sound | Clayton Ashley | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Patrick Gill | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Phil Nolan | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Angélica Ponce | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Clayton Ashley | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Tara Long | Executive Producer |
| Production | Chris Plante | Executive Producer |
| Production | Simone de Rochefort | Producer |
| Production | Clayton Ashley | Associate Producer |
| Crew | Angélica Ponce | Cinematography |
| Crew | Patrick Gill | Cinematography |
| Crew | Phil Nolan | Cinematography |
| Crew | Clayton Ashley | Cinematography |
