"In the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stand for."
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger
Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Michael Kahn
Production companies: Touchstone Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Participant Media, Afterworks Limited, Studio Babelsberg, Amblin Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Release date: 16 October 2015 (United States)
Running time: 141 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $40 million
Box office: $160.9 million
"Bridge of Spies" is a historical biographical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The story is about an American lawyer who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot during the Cold War.
Cast
- Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan
- Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel
- Amy Ryan as Mary McKenna Donovan
- Alan Alda as Thomas Watters
- Austin Stowell as Francis Gary Powers
- Scott Shepherd as Hoffman
- Jesse Plemons as Murphy
- Domenick Lombardozzi as Agent Blasco
- Sebastian Koch as Wolfgang Vogel
- Eve Hewson as Carol Donovan
- Will Rogers as Frederic Pryor
- Dakin Matthews as Judge Mortimer W. Byers
- Michael Gaston as Williams
- Peter McRobbie as Allen Dulles
- Stephen Kunken as William Tompkins
- Joshua Harto as Bates
- Billy Magnussen as Doug Forrester
- Mark Zak as Soviet Judge
- Edward James Hyland as Chief Justice Earl Warren
- Mikhail Gorevoy as Ivan Alexandrovich Schischkin
What do you expect from Spielberg and Hanks' tandem? A film which you want to rewatch and rewatch. However, "Bridge of Spies" hasn't become to me something like this: and that's not because of the genre as I like drama films about spies. I just... How can I explain it? Technically the picture is made perfectly, acting is also on the high level but I'm not able to feel it. So I just see a well-made film which brings me no emotions. Unfortunately.
Advantages
- Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan
- The plot
- Music
Disadvantages
- A little too slow moving
"Strangenesses"
- Russian accent of American and English actors
Clue Moments
- Brooklyn
- Rudolf Abel's arrest
- The trial
- 30 years imprisonment
- A U-2 spy plane
- The bridge
Born in 1916 in New York City, lawyer James B. Donovan worked for the International Military Tribunal at the end of World War II. He defended Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in a 1957 espionage trial, and in 1962 he brokered the exchange of Abel for U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers. Donovan later convinced Cuban Premier Fidel Castro to release nearly 10,000 prisoners. He died in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York.
More here.
Soundtracks
- Thomas Newman - Hall Of Trade Unions, Moscow
- Thomas Newman - Sunlit Silence
- Thomas Newman - Ejection Protocol
- Thomas Newman - Standing Man
- Thomas Newman - Rain
- Thomas Newman - Lt. Francis Gary Powers
- Thomas Newman - The Article
- Thomas Newman - The Wall
- Thomas Newman - Private Citizen
- Thomas Newman - The Impatient Plan
- Thomas Newman - West Berlin
- Thomas Newman - Friedrichstraße Station
- Thomas Newman - Glienicke Bridge
- Thomas Newman - Homecoming
- Thomas Newman - End Title
Quotations
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James Donovan: Aren't you worried?Rudolf Abel: Would it help?
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Rudolf Abel: Standing there like that you reminded me of the man that used to come to our house when I was young. My father used to say: "watch this man", so I did, every time he came. And never once he do anything remarkable.James Donovan: And I remind you of him?
Rudolf Abel: This one time, I was at the age of your son, our house is overrun by partisan boarder guards. Dozen of them. My father was beaten, my mother was beaten, and this man, my father's friend, he was beaten. And I watched this man. Every time they hit him, he stood back up again. Soldier hit him harder, still he got back to his feet. I think because of this they stopped the beating and let him live... "Stoikiy muzhik". Which sort of means like a "standing man"... Standing man...
* * *
Rudolf Abel: Would it help?
* * *
James Donovan: We have to have the conversations our governments can't.
* * *
James Donovan: Enjoy your big American breakfast.
* * *
James Donovan: One, one, one.
* * *
James Donovan: Two, two, two.
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You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 8/10
Entertainment: 7/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 8/10
Music and Sound: 8/10
8/10
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