Title: Bridge Of Spies
Original Title: Bridge Of Spies
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 141 Minutes (2 hours 21 min)
- Budget: €40,000,000
- Genre: Thriller Drama
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures 20th Century Studios
- Distributor: 20th Century Studios
- Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: November 26 2015
- United States: October 16 2015
Plot
Three years has passed since his last movie, 'Bridge of Spies' is the newest movie directed by Steven Spielberg. 'Bridge of Spies' is an american historical thriller with a script written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. This dramatical thriller is based in the year 1960 during the Cold War between United States and the Soviet Union. Thomas Newman is in charge of the original score. The plot of the movie is set on James Donovan's history, played by Tom Hanks, a northamerican lawyer who has to defend Rudolph Abel, a KGB spy agent, in court. Meanwhile, Francis Gary Powell a U-2 pilot is being shot-down and captured while he was going on a sortie over the Soviet Union and Frederic Pryor, an american economics student, is captured as a spy by the Stasi in Berlin. Donovan receives an alleged letter for Abel from his family but it's from the KGB proposing a prisoner exchange. Donovan, beware of Pryor's capture, will work alongside the CIA to rescue their missing fellow citizens but it will provoke new problems between the three nations
Awards
- 2016 Academy Awards (Oscars): 6 1
- 2016 Golden Globes: 1 0
- 2016 BAFTA Awards: 10 1
Cast
Director:
James Donovan
Jan Donovan
Rudolf Abel
Mary Donovan
Williams
Wolfgang Vogel
Thomas Watters
Videos
September 16 2015
June 5 2015
Photos
Trivia
This is the second collaboration between Steven Spielberg and The Coen Brothers. Spielberg was the executive producer for 'True Grit'.
The rock band U2 took their name from the U-2 plane which is featured in this movie. The band's lead singer Bono's daughter Eve Hewson plays a role in the movie.
When James Donovan makes arguments to the Supreme Court about Rudolf, the words used in the movie were the same as the arguments presented to the Supreme Court.
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