Doc Soup: My Father, the Spy

Showings

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema Wed, Nov 13, 2019 6:30 PM
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema Thu, Nov 14, 2019 6:45 PM
Film Info
Runtime:85 min
Copyright:2019
Country Listing:Latvia
Rating:Not yet rated (STC)
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Jaak Kilmi
Gints Grube

Description

In 1978, Ieva Lešinskis, a student from Soviet-Latvia, took a vacation that changed her life forever. While visiting her father, a senior Latvian official at the United Nations in New York City, he announced he was going to defect and gave her a choice: denounce him as a traitor and return home or stay with him and never see her mother again. She chose to stay. Decades later, with the help of archival footage, photographs, interviews and reconstructions, Ieva delves into that choice, pulling back the curtain on the shady realities of the Cold War, revealing the effects of a double life, and untangling her family's secrets.


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