The Jump
2020-10-09 | 85 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
-
107 Mothers
-
Jean Painlevé Through His Films
-
Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo
-
The Way to the Heart
-
Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda
-
Where The Street Ends
-
Claused Freedom
-
Captain Nulle
-
Shrek's Thrilling Tales
-
Six Children and One Grandfather
-
The great voyage of Captain Neptune
-
Rewind 2: 1996
-
Kein Wort für die Liebe
-
Thanks Einstein
-
Alma Portuguesa
-
Whistling Princess
-
The Big Departure
-
De Vliegende Panters: The Big Three
-
Ticket
Similar Movies
-
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
-
Ice-Breaker: The '72 Summit Series
-
Spies: The Dirty Game of Espionage
-
The Day Called X
-
From Harlem with Love
-
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
-
Animated Soviet Propaganda
-
The Perfect Story
-
Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time
-
The Helsinki Effect
-
Mission to Mir
-
Cold War Submarine Adventures: Cuban Missile Crisis - Secret Subs
-
The Hole In The Ground
-
Public Shelter Organization and Staff
-
Operations in Public Shelters
-
Information Program Within Public Shelters
-
Nukes in Space
-
The Arrow of Time
-
Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?
-
President; Actor of Cinema