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The Defection of Simas Kudirka is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film based on actual events, featuring Alan Arkin as Simas Kudirka, a Lithuanian merchant seaman who attempts to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States by jumping onto a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Among the movie's awards are two Emmys wins and three more Emmy ...
Simas Kudirka. Simas Kudirka (9 April 1930 – 11 February 2023) was a Lithuanian sailor. [1] He is best known for the attempted defection from the Soviet Union in 1970 and subsequent activism against the Soviet regime in Lithuania. An important outcome of the incident was the creation of the improved guidelines for handling defections by ...
On November 23, 1970, Simonas "Simas" Kudirka, a Soviet seaman of Lithuanian origin, leapt from the 400-foot (120 m) mother ship Sovetskaya Litva, anchored in U.S. waters near Aquinnah, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard, aboard Vigilant, sailing from New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Soviets accused Kudirka of theft of 3,000 rubles from the ...
The Defection of Simas Kudirka was executive produced by Abrams in 1978. It is based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and
With Shirley Knight in the TV special The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978) In 1970, Arkin starred as Capt. John Yossarian in the Mike Nichols film Catch-22. The film is a satirical black comedy war film adapted from the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller.
Pleškys' defection was one of two incidents that inspired Tom Clancy in his writing of The Hunt for Red October. [5] The other was the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy. [10] Pasmerktas myriop (Condemned to Death), a documentary about Pleškys directed by Henrikas Šablevičius , was released in 1999. [11]
Principal photography for the film began on August 20, 1980, with location filming in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.According to production notes, San Francisco locations included Alta Plaza Park, China Basin and Potrero Hill.
Plot. The story follows the troubled lives of three young men, friends since high school, who have reached breaking points. The first is a college dropout, and draft dodger, who is involved with a woman old enough to be his mother. He formulates a plan to rob a Dorr's supermarket so he can purchase a boat and escape his problems.