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The Jump

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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.

Directed byGiedrė Žickytė

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 25m
Language
LT
Released
October 9, 2020
Studios
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The Jump (Šuolis) | Official Trailer | Streaming on Klassiki

The Jump (Šuolis) | Official Trailer | Streaming on Klassiki

THE JUMP Official Trailer (2020)

THE JUMP Official Trailer (2020)

The Jump | Artdocfest 2020 | Baltic focus | Trailer

The Jump | Artdocfest 2020 | Baltic focus | Trailer

The Jump (2020) | Official Trailer | MetFilm Sales

The Jump (2020) | Official Trailer | MetFilm Sales

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Cast & crew

5 credited
Starring
Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Self

Ralph W. Eustis

Self

Daiva Kezys

Self

Simas Kudirka

Self

Grazina Paegle

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Giedrė Žickytė
Giedrė Žickytė
Written by
Giedrė Žickytė
Giedrė Žickytė
Produced by
Giedrė Žickytė
Giedrė Žickytė

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