R | 1h 58m | Cold War Drama
The “Tetris” video game was one of the most successful exports of the late Soviet era, but it was not a socialist-friendly tycoon like Armand Hammer who landed the deal. Henk (with an “e”) Rogers was not the Soviets’ kind of guy, but the Dutch game designer and salesman picked up so much confidence and optimism from his American education, he refused to take “no” for an answer. Unfortunately, the KGB insisted otherwise.
The story of how the famous game of falling geometric shapes made the journey from the Soviet Union to Gameboys around the world unfolds in Jon S. Baird’s fact-based Cold War drama, “Tetris,” which premieres on Apple TV+….