Bridge of Spies (2015) is a biography/history movie directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Matt Charman and Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel). The movie has Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Domenick Lombardozzi, and Victor Verhaeghe in lead roles.
Bridge of Spies (2015) tells the story of an American lawyer James B. Donovan. He is entrusted with negotiating the release of a pilot (Francis Gary Powers) whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. He is doing it in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a captive Russian spy held under the custody of the United States.
The movie was released on 16th October, 2015 in USA. Let’s have a look at the interesting facts and details about Bridge of Spies (2015).
14. Production crew traveled to Wrolcaw, Poland to shoot the crucial Berlin Wall sequences in the movie. Berlin Wall plays a major role in the film. Actual Berlin Wall was torn down many years ago from now.
Berlin Wall in Bridge of Spies
13. Bridge of Spies (2015) is the first director Steven Spielberg film not to be scored by composer John Williams since “The Color Purple(1985)”. John Williams had some minor health issue and composer Thomas Newman stepped in to replace him.
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11. Bridge of Spies (2015) is the first collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks in over ten years. Their last collaboration was movie The Terminal (2004).
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in The Terminal
10. Director Steven Spielberg’s father actually went on a foreign exchange to Russia as an engineer during the cold war. It was right after Francis Gary Powers was shot down in Russia. There was tremendous fear and hostility between the two nations. Spielberg’s father recalled seeing Russian citizens line up to look at Powers’ crashed gear and “see what America did.”
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