The Jump

The account is set at the start of the seventies. An American coast guard vessel and a Soviet ship meet. What they are discussing is fishing rights in the Atlantic. The Soviet commanders come aboard the American ship. At that moment a Lithuanian sailor makes a decision. He jumps the gap between the two vessels. He lands on the American deck. He asks for asylum. But his request is not granted. The Soviet crew take him back. After that come the years in prison. The documentary moves through archive footage. The sailor Simas Kudirka tells of that day himself. Simas Kudirka and Henry Kissinger appear in the eighty five minute documentary, a French, Lithuanian, Latvian and German coproduction Giedre Zickyte finished in 2020.