29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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My Father, The Spy
My Father, The Spy
My Father, The Spy
My Father, The Spy
My Father, The Spy

My Father, The Spy

Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube / Czech Republic, Latvia, Germany, United States, Estonia / 2019 / Czech Premiere / 85 min.


synopsis

In 1978, Ieva Lesinska was an ordinary university student who lived with her mother in then-Soviet Latvia. Her father worked officially as a translator for the UN in New York, but was also a KGB agent. When Ieva got permission to visit her father in the United States, he told her that he was about to "flee again" with his second wife. Ieva decided to stay with her father. The new family officially became East German emigrants with new identities: Peter and Linda Dorn with their daughter Evelyn. Today, Ieva is trying to reveal the incredible life and strange death of her father, a KGB agent who defected to the CIA, in a feature documentary.

more about film

director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube
producer: Mistrus Media, 8Heads Productions, Markéta Štinglová
script: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube
photography: Aigars Sērmukšs
editing: Armands Začs
sound: Aigars Sērmukšs

contact

ČESKÁ TELEVIZE
Martina Šantavá
Kavčí Hory
140 70 / Prague 4 / Czech Republic
martina.santava@ceskatelevize.cz
www.ceskatelevize.cz

 

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2019
section:Czech Television Documentaries
format:Video File
language:Czech
colour:Colour

Info

director:Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube
original title:My Father The Spy
country:Czech Republic, Latvia, Germany, United States, Estonia
year:2019
running time:85 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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