Lithuanian documentary director Giedrė Žickytė was in Los Angeles a few years ago when a friend said to her, "Have you heard about the guy who jumped from a Soviet ship to an American ship?"The friend was referring to a Lithuanian sailor named Simas Kudirka who defected from the Soviet Union by jumping off a Soviet vessel and on board a U.S.
Coast Guard cutter ship in November of 1970. The man's name was Simas Kudirka and, though his action sparked a diplomatic crisis during the height of the Cold War, Žickytė had not heard about him.
When she did, she was gripped with fascination."This story reveals so many things," Žickytė said in a conversation with TheWrap's editor in chief Sharon Waxman.
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