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‘The Big Chief’ Director Investigates Soviet Spy Ringmaster Leopold Trepper and Antisemitism in Communist-Era Poland
Tomasz Wolski’s documentary “The Big Chief,” which world premiered this week at Visions du Réel, follows the life of Soviet spy master Leopold Trepper.
Tomasz Wolski’s documentary “The Big Chief,” which world premiered this week at Visions du Réel, follows the life of Soviet spy ringmaster Leopold Trepper. In 2016, Wolski was researching another film, “An Ordinary Country,” in Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, which holds documents and footage from the Nazi occupation through the decades of Soviet domination that followed. One of the central issues is whether Trepper genuinely collaborated with the Gestapo after he was captured or, as he claimed later, he was feeding them false information and alerted the Soviets that the Red Orchestra had been compromised.
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