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During the Cold War, an American pilot is captured after his spy plane is shot down. A New York lawyer who defended a convicted Soviet spy is recruited to negotiate in Berlin, where he hopes to secure the pilot’s freedom through a tense prisoner exchange.
Cast: Mark Rylance, Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch, Austin Stowell, Billy Magnussen, Michael Simon Hall, Edward James Hyland, Stephen Kunken, Mike Houston, James Lorinz
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Trivia & production notes
- Steven Spielberg decided to direct Bridge of Spies after his father photographed the wreckage of Francis Gary Powers's U-2 plane on public display during a Moscow business trip.
- Matt Charman discovered the story of James Donovan through a footnote in a biography of John F. Kennedy and pitched it to multiple studios before DreamWorks purchased the script.
- Mark Rylance compared the Coen brothers' revisions to his screenplay role as comparable to the difference between the first and second quartos of Hamlet.
- The film was shot under the working title St. James Place before the title Bridge of Spies was revealed in March 2015.
- Francis Gary Powers Jr., son of the U-2 pilot and founder of The Cold War Museum, served as a technical consultant on the film and appears in a cameo.
- The prisoner exchange scene was filmed on the Glienicke Bridge, the actual location where the historical exchange took place in 1962, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former president Bill Clinton visited the set during filming.
- Wrocław, Poland was used as a filming location to double for East Berlin in scenes depicting the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- Principal photography began in Brooklyn on September 8, 2014, and wrapped on December 4 at Berlin Tempelhof, with production also taking place in Berlin, Potsdam, Poland, and California.
- The film was shot on 35mm motion picture film using Kodak Vision3 color negative stock.
- The German Federal Film Fund provided €3.7 million in funding for the film's production.
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