

The Jump
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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- English
- cold war
- asylum seekers
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CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTTJi.hlava International Documentary Film Festival28 Oct 2020
FranceFR
- Digital / OTT22 Jun 2020
ItalyIT
- PremiereRome Cinema Fest16 Oct 2020
LatviaLV
- PremiereArt Doc Fest27 Nov 2020
PolandPL
- PremiereWarsaw Film Festival9 Oct 2020
RussiaRU
- PremiereArt Doc Fest10 Dec 2020
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The Jump was released on 9 October 2020.
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