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CBS. Release. January 23, 1978. (1978-01-23) 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.
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 ...
The book helped spur further investigations into the incident that eventually led to Kudirka's release by the Soviets. It remains part of the reading curriculum in the U.S. Coast Guard Academy . The incident was portrayed in a 1978 television movie, The Defection of Simas Kudirka , with Alan Arkin playing Kudirka and Donald Pleasence playing ...
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.
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
The prison and shipyard locations were used to depict a Russian shipyard in the 1978 television film The Defection of Simas Kudirka starring Alan Arkin. [10] Protagonist character Joker refers to the shipyard in the 1979 novel The Short-Timers, which was later adapted as the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, but without the reference.
The Defection of Simas Kudirka: Bruce Feldman CBS: The Gathering: James Poe: ABC: Something for Joey: Jerry McNeely CBS: The Storyteller: Richard Levinson and William Link: Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or Special 1979 [15] The Jericho Mile: Michael Mann and Patrick J. Nolan: ABC: Backstairs at the White House "Book One" Gwen Bagni ...
The 30th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 17, 1978. The ceremony was broadcast on CBS, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California. The top shows of the night were All in the Family, which won its then record fourth Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, and The Rockford Files. CBS continued its streak of dominance by ...