It’s 1978, a group of electrical engineering, classmates, established an IT company “Iskra Delta computers” in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the USA, this was the time of Bill Gates, Gary Kildall, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Iskra Delta saw a meteoric rise and constructed the first and world’s largest computer network in China, in 1985. When the company’s technology became too powerful and too big, it attracted the attention of the CIA, which wanted to prevent the enemy from accessing it. On the other side of the front, the KGB saw Iskra Delta Computers as a final opportunity to make up for Soviet IT shortcomings. The company was also in trouble with the Yugoslav secret police UDBA and the local authorities due to their shortsightedness, corruption, and proverbial Slovene jealousy.
On top of it all, Yugoslavia was facing a bloody breakup.
Based on the book "Cold War for Information Technology" by Janez Škrube.
| Producer: |
Ida Weiss |
| Director: |
Jurij Gruden |
| Script: |
Jurij Gruden, Miloš Kalusek |
| Camera: |
Radovan Čok |
| Editing: |
Miloš Kalusek |
| Director of photography: |
Radovan Čok |
| Others: |
Co-producer: Tanja Gruden
Sound design: Julij Zornik
Sound recorder: Vjekoslav Mikez
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Jurij Gruden, born in Trieste in 1975, graduated in 2004 from the AGRFT in Ljubljana, majoring in film and television directing. He is a screenwriter and director of documentary films:
Sparks in time (2020), A cup of coffee (2016), Živeti kamen (2014), Music from Trieste to Trbiž (2010), At the end of Tržaška (2010), Glasnik slovenska brežine (2008), Edi Šelhaus: I was there (2007) ).
