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The Jump

Movie
2020
1h 25m
Lithuanian
Documentary
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.
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Directed By: Giedrė Žickytė
Written By: Giedrė Žickytė (Screenplay)

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miguelreina says...
3 years ago
[Docsbarcelona] There are two elements that play in favor of the film: Simas Kudirka himself, an old man full of vitality, and the structure in three acts: the desertion, the prison and the liberation. The film makes clever use of information, creating a kind of thriller. There is an interesting reflection of the "American dream", the aspiration to an idyllic place that reveals itself less fascinating than it seemed.
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