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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 (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 American officials.
Book of the Dead is an anthology of horror stories first published in 1989, edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector and featuring a foreword written by George A. Romero (erroneously credited as George R. Romero in first print editions of the book). All the stories in the anthology are united by the same premise seen in Romero's apocalyptic films ...
The defection by Ri — a former political counselor at the North's Embassy in Cuba — was only made public last month. It likely has angered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, because it could ...
The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC. [1] ". Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts [2] consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey ...
The Bardo Thodol (Tibetan: བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, Wylie: bar do thos grol, 'Liberation through hearing during the intermediate state'), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a terma text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones, [1] [note 1] revealed by Karma ...
According to the end credits, the film was made in 1976, not in 1978 (the source is imdb and incorrect). Why it was broadcasted in 1978 -- this should be checked again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Historienne2012 (talk • contribs) 07:34, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
The Bandlet of Righteousness [1] (Ethiopic: Lefāfa Ṣedeḳ), [2] also known as the Ethiopian Book of the Dead, is an anonymous Ethiopic magico-religious funerary text. It consists of a frame story about how God the Father revealed the secret names of God to his son, Jesus Christ, who then gave them to his mother, the Virgin Mary, who passed them on to her relatives.