The Defection of Simas Kudirka
TV Movie, Drama
1978, US
1h 40m
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Alan Arkin
Donald Pleasence
Barton Heyman
Richard Jordan
Shirley Knight
George Dzundza
John McMartin
Ted Shackelford
Marvin Silbersher
Peter Evans
David Lowell Rich
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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 sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.
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