Giedre Zickyte
Director
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The Jump
20201h 24m8.3 rating
Documentary · History
The story
In 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.
Cast
Walter Cronkite
Self
Richard Nixon
Self
Gerald Ford
Self
Henry Kissinger
Self
Robert M. Brieze
Self - New Bedford Seafood Producers Association
Grazina Paegle
Self - Lithuanian American
Cindy White Glazewski
Self
Lila Aryan
Self
Simas Kudirka
Self - Radio Operator - Sovetskaya Litva
Country
Lithuania
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