The Jump

7.3
20201h 25m

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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Thumbnail for video: The Jump (2020) | Official Trailer | MetFilm Sales

The Jump (2020) | Official Trailer | MetFilm Sales

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THE JUMP [trailer]

Thumbnail for video: The Jump (Šuolis) | Official Trailer | Streaming on Klassiki

The Jump (Šuolis) | Official Trailer | Streaming on Klassiki

Thumbnail for video: THE JUMP Official Trailer (2020)

THE JUMP Official Trailer (2020)

Thumbnail for video: The Jump | Artdocfest 2020 | Baltic focus | Trailer

The Jump | Artdocfest 2020 | Baltic focus | Trailer

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