Forgive Me, Sergei The documentary film Forgive Me Sergei is a story of love betrayal and forgiveness between two people who never met. It is an example of how the ideological war between the Soviet Union and the United States dramatically affected the fates of those living in the Twentieth Century how a 20yearold Soviet sailor Sergei Kourdakov on the third of September 1971 jumped from his ship in the Pacific Ocean and barely made it alive to the Canadian shore. As a political immigrant Sergei turned over a completely new leaf . .