Screening and finissage of exhibition
WarGames

Games and Politics

Wed, 16.10.2019
7:30 PM - 22:00 Goethe-Institut Nicosia

The event series Games and Politics concludes on 16th October with the finissage of the interactive exhibition and a screening of the classic movie WarGames.

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy. The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be a computer game. The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start World War III.