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MY FATHER THE SPY

SPIEGS, KURŠ MANS TĒVS

By Jaak KILMI, Gints GRUBE

Documentary - Completed 2019

The reconstruction of a personal story of Cold War espionage asinvestigated by Ieva Lešinska, daughter of CIA and KGB double agent Imants Lešinskis.

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019

EBS International Documentary Festival 2019

Manaki Brothers Film Festival 2019

Jihlava IDFF 2019

"Cinema Vérité" 13th Iran International Documentary Film Festival 2019

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2019

Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2019

Cineuropa Compostela 2019

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Countries
- LATVIA, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, ESTONIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, LATVIAN
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Jaak KILMI, Gints GRUBE
- Producer(s)
- Gints GRUBE (MISTRUS MEDIA), Inese BOKA-GRUBE (MISTRUS MEDIA)
- Synopsis
- As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a dark spy game, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter's dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of events which have their roots over four decades ago. In order to find herself and understand the game she was part of, Ieva sets out on a journey to the past, confronting family secrets, lies and betrayal.