Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor.
The film was written and adapted by April Smith, starred Mary Stuart Masterson and Anthony LaPaglia for CBS, and debuted in 1999.
The movie follows Frances's relationship with her increasingly abusive NYCPD officer husband, who has the police force on his side and her eventual escape to Florida with her son.
In 2003, Abrams executive produced 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out, the FX Network's highest-rated show in its nine-year history.
In 2003, Abrams executive produced the Emmy-nominated television movie Out of the Ashes[8] for Showtime, shot in Vilnius, Lithuania, starring Christine Lahti and directed by Joseph Sargent.
Based on a true story, the film follows the journey of Gisella Perl, a Hungarian-Jewish doctor who survived Auschwitz but was later accused of collusion with the Nazis while applying for U.S. citizenship.
In 2005, Abrams and Bud Greenspan produced Four Minutes for ESPN, written by legendary Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford.
Gerald W. Abrams has executive produced over 70 films, most recently Love, Again, Christmas Shepherd, and Houdini, cable television's top-rated miniseries of 2014.
[9] Houdini, a two-part, four-hour miniseries for History, was written by Academy Award-nominated Nicholas Meyer and directed by Uli Edel.
It premiered on September 1, 2014, starring Adrien Brody as Harry Houdini[10] and co-starring Kristen Connolly (House of Cards) and Evan Jones.
Second Honeymoon was produced with his late wife, Carol Abrams, and starred Roma Downey and Tim Matheson for CBS and was shot in Puerto Rico.
In addition to his television credits, Abrams was also the executive producer of Hearts Of Fire, a theatrical film for Lorimar, starring Bob Dylan and Rupert Everett.
Nuremberg was a four-hour mini-series for Turner Network Television starring Alec Baldwin and Christopher Plummer and directed by Yves Simoneau.
[12] Family of Spies is a fact-based story of John A. Walker, Jr., a Navy chief warrant officer with access to top-secret cryptographic communications.