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The Jump

The Jump

Documentary
2018, Movie, 1h 25min
In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.
Country: Lithuania,France,Germany,Latvia
Cast:
Henry Kissinger,
Simas Kudirka,
Ralph W. Eustis,
Grazina Paegle
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Henry Kissinger
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Simas Kudirka
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Ralph W. Eustis
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Grazina Paegle
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Daiva Kezys
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In the midst of a Cold War showdown between the US and Soviet Union, a young Lithuanian sailor named Simas Kudirka made a daring leap for freedom, jumping from a Soviet ship onto a US Coast Guard vessel. His desperate bid for asylum set off a chain of events that would captivate the world and become a symbol of resistance against oppression. Through rare archival footage and a gripping re-enactment, this documentary tells the incredible true story of Simas Kudirka's fight for freedom, and the sacrifices he made to become a beacon of hope for others.

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