Bridge of Spies (Original title)
Dates: 2015 (Copyright), 27 November 2015 (Release)Countries: USA, United Kingdom, Germany, IndiaDirector: Steven Spielberg
Synopsis: Espionage thriller set during the Cold War. When Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy in New York, is caught and tried, his lawyer, James Donovan, argues that American values demand that Abel's life be spared. When US military pilot Francis Gary Powers is shot down over Russia and thrown in prison, Donovan is sent to Berlin to negotiate a complicated exchange of Americans for Abel. All his powers of persuasion, character judgment, trust, ingenuity and bluff are called upon as he navigates the treacherous world of burocrats, corruption and espionage in a city torn, like the world, into two mutually mistrustful factions.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Espionage, Cold War, East Berlin
Releases
Date: 2015Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 141 mins 10 secs - Length: 12705 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 141 mins 10 secs - Length: 12705 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 2015 (Copyright), 27 November 2015 (Release)Countries: USA, United Kingdom, Germany, IndiaDirector: Steven Spielberg
Synopsis: Espionage thriller set during the Cold War. When Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy in New York, is caught and tried, his lawyer, James Donovan, argues that American values demand that Abel's life be spared. When US military pilot Francis Gary Powers is shot down over Russia and thrown in prison, Donovan is sent to Berlin to negotiate a complicated exchange of Americans for Abel. All his powers of persuasion, character judgment, trust, ingenuity and bluff are called upon as he navigates the treacherous world of burocrats, corruption and espionage in a city torn, like the world, into two mutually mistrustful factions.
Genre: Thriller
Subjects: Espionage, Cold War, East Berlin
Releases
Date: 2015Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 141 mins 10 secs - Length: 12705 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 141 mins 10 secs - Length: 12705 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: L.L.C. DreamWorks II Distribution Co., ©: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, ©: TSG Entertainment Finance LLC, Poland Production Services Provided by: Alex Stern Sp. z o.o., Robert Golba, Executive Producer: Adam Somner, Executive Producer: Daniel Lupi, Executive Producer: Jeff Skoll, Executive Producer: Jonathan King, Produced by: Steven Spielberg, Produced by: Marc Platt, Produced by: Kristie Macosko Krieger, Co-producer: Christoph Fisser, Co-producer: Henning Molfenter, Co-producer: Charlie Woebcken, Executive in Charge of Physical Production: Jane Evans, Production Executive: Shelly Strong, Executive in Charge of Post-production: Mark Graziano, Unit Production Manager: Daniel Lupi, Unit Production Manager: Carla Raij, Unit Production Manager: Arno Neubauer, Unit Production Manager: Marianna Rowinská, Unit Production Manager: Will Weiske, Production Supervisor: Corey Sklov, Production Co-ordinator: Meghan K. Wicker, Production Co-ordinator: Imke Sommerkamp, Production Co-ordinator: Kate Kelly, Production Controller: Maria Devane, Financial Controller: Maggie Phelan, Production Accountant: Pamela Ellington, Production Accountant: Bettina Brenner, Location Manager: Jason Farrar, Location Manager: Klaus Grosse Darrelmann, Location Manager: Klaudia Smieja, Location Co-ordinator: Alexander Biehn, Post-production Supervisor: Justin Ostensen, Post-production Co-ordinator: Gunnar McGrew, 1st Assistant Director: Adam Somner, 2nd Assistant Director: Jeremy Marks, Additional 2nd Assistant Director: Justin Bischoff, Floor 2nd Assistant Director: Basia Baumann, Additional 2nd Assistant Director: Rafael Sanz, 2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Josh Muzaffer, 2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Trevor Tavares, 3rd Assistant Director: Carla Kampfer, Script Supervisor: Jessica Lichtner, Casting by: Ellen Lewis, European Casting: Lucky Englander, Fritz Fleischhacker, Written by: Matt Charman, Written by: Ethan Coen, Written by: Joel Coen, Director of Photography: Janusz Kaminski, A Camera Operator: Mitch Dubin, B Camera Operator/Steadicam: Marcus Pohlus, B Camera/Steadicam Operator: David Emmerichs, Gaffer: Albrecht Silberberger, Chief Lighting Technician: Steven Ramsey, Chief Lighting Technician: Brian Bartolini, Key Grip: Mitch Lillian, Key Grip: Glenn König, Still Photographer: Jaap Buitendijk, Visual Effects Producer: Jennifer Meislohn, Visual Effects Co-ordinator: Daniel Walker, Visual Effects Co-ordinator: Kimberly Aller, Visual Effects by: Double Negative, Pixomondo Images, Special Effects Supervisor: Steve Kirshoff, Special Effects Supervisor: Gerd Nefzer, Special Effects Set Supervisor: Bernd Rautenberg, Special Effects Co-ordinator: Mark Bero, Special Effects Co-ordinator: Klaus Mielich, Special Effects Co-ordinator: John McLeod, Edited by: Michael Kahn, Additional Editing by: Sarah Broshar, Associate Editor: Patrick Crane, Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen, Supervising Art Director: Kim Jennings, Supervising Art Director: Marco Bittner Rosser, Art Director: Scott Dougan, Art Director: Anja Müller, Set Designer: Josef Brandl, Set Designer: Michael Fissneider, Set Decorator: Rena De Angelo, Set Decorator: Bernhard Henrich, Graphic Designer: Liliana Lambriev, Illustrator: Hugh Sicotte, Ulrich Zeidler, Property Master: Sandy Hamilton, Prop Master: Eckart Fritz, Construction Co-ordinator: Joseph Alfieri, Construction Manager: Marco Pressler, Costume Designer: Kasia Walicka Maimone, Costume Supervisor: David Davenport, Costume Supervisor (Background): Nicole Greenbaum, Costume Supervisor: Bettina Seifert, Costume Supervisor: Meike Schlegel, Key Costumer: Stephen Ferry, Make-up Department Head: Judy Chin, Key Make-up Artist: Björn Rehbein, Henny Zimmer, Make-up Artist: Lois Burwell, Make-up Artist: Kenny Myers, Make-up Artist: Heather Plott, Hair Department Head: Kay Georgiou, Key Hair Stylist: Mitchell Beck, Key Hair Stylist: Petra Schaumann, Kay Hair Stylist: Barbara Cantu, Hair Stylist: Claire Corsick, Main and End Titles by: Scarlet Letters, Supervising Digital Colourist: Mike Hatzer, Second Colourist: Chris Jensen, Music by: Thomas Newman, Instrumental Soloist: Steve Tavaglione, Instrumental Soloist: George Doering, Instrumental Soloist: Dan Greco, Rick Cox, Orchestrations: J.A.C. Redford, Sound Designer: Gary Rydstrom, Sound Designer: Steve Boeddeker, Production Sound Mixer: Drew Kunin, Re-recording Mixer: Steve Boeddeker, Re-recording Mixer: Andy Nelson, Re-recording Mixer: Gary Rydstrom, Supervising Sound Editor: Richard Hymns, Sound Effects Editor: Krysten Mate, ADR Supervisor: Steve Slanec, Foley Editor: Luke Dunn Gielmuda, Foley Editor: Doug Winningham, Foley Editor: Benny Burt, Stunt Co-ordinator: Mark Fichera, Stunt Co-ordinator: Leo Plank, UK Costume Consultant: Colleen Kelsall, Unit Publicist: Larry Kaplan, Digital Intermediate by: Technicolor LA, Filmed at: Studio Babelsberg
Cast
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Tom Hanks (James B. Donovan), Mark Rylance (Rudolf Abel), Scott Shepherd (Hoffman), Amy Ryan (Mary Donovan), Sebastian Koch (Wolfgang Vogel), Alan Alda (Thomas Watters Jr.), Austin Stowell (Francis Gary Powers), Billy Magnussen (Doug Forrester), Eve Hewson (Carol Donovan), Jesse Plemons (Joe Murphy), Michael Gaston (Agent Williams), Peter McRobbie (Allen Dulles), Domenick Lombardozzi (Agent Blasco), Victor Verhaeghe (Agent Gamber), Mark Fichera, Brian Hutchinson (FBI agent), Joshua Harto (Bates), Henny Russell (receptionist), Rebekah Brockman (Alison, Donovan's secretary), John Rue (Lynn Goodnough), Jillian Lebling (Peggy Donovan), Noah Schnapp (Roger Donovan), Joel Brady (police officer - Brooklyn courthouse), Michael Pemberton (lie detector test administrator), Geoffrey Rude, Michael Rempen (pilots in motel room), Michael Gaston (Agent Williams), Dakin Matthews (Judge Byers), Stephen Kunken (William Tompkins), Jon Curry (Agent Somner), Wes McGee (U2 pilot), Jim Ferris (bailiff), Lucia Ryan (crying girl), Nolan Lyons (classroom boy 1), Hayley Feinstein (classroom girl 1), Victoria Leigh (classroom girl 2), Sawyer Barth (classroom boy 2), Ashlie Atkinson (classroom teacher), Haley Rawson (teacher), Laurie Dawn (secretary on subway), Andy Schneeflock (gentleman on subway #1), James Lorinz (gentleman on subway #2), Pat Squire (older lady on subway), Mario Corry (clerk), Donavon Dietz (foreman), Le Clanché du Rand (Millie Byers), Mike Houston (man in courtroom), Joe Starr, Hamilton Clancy, Jonathan Walker (courthouse reporters), Greg Nutcher (NYPD Lieutenant), Tracy Howe (angry NYPD cop), Edward Hyland (Justice Warren), John Taylor (radio newscaster), Steven Boyer (Marty), John Henry Cox (partner at Watters Law Firm), Mark Zak (Soviet judge (Powers trial)), Victor Schefé (Soviet translator), Will Rogers (Frederic Pryor), Daniela Schulz, Moritz Berg, Emma Nazahn (family #1 at Berlin Wall construction), Matthias Scherwenikas, Greta Galisch de Palma, Matilda Palma Galisch (family #2 at Berlin Wall construction), Nadja Bobyleva (Katje), Kai Wido Meyer (East German soldier #1), Kristoffer Fuss (East German soldier #2), Thomas Hacikoglu (East German soldier #3), David Wilson Barnes (Mr Michener), Joe Forbrich (Pinker), Henning Bormann (prison official), Ketel Weber (checkpoint soldier #1), Maik Rogge (checkpoint soldier #2), Tim Morten Uhlenbrock (checkpoint soldier #3), Mathias Gartner, Rafael Gareisen, Nico Ehrenteit (East German youths), Radik Golovkov (Soviet Embassy receptionist), Petra Marie Cammin (Helen Abel), Lucy Dreznin (Lydia Abel), Michael Schenk (Cousin Drews), Mikhail Gorevoy (Ivan Schischkin), Wanja Gotz, Stefan Langel, Vladimir Vilanov (Soviet guards), Ivan Shvedoff (2nd Soviet interrogator), Merab Ninidze (Soviet main interrogator), Konstantin Frolov (Soviet director, official), Steve Cirbus (Michael Verona), Michael Kranz (checkpoint guard #1), Max Kidd (checkpoint guard #2), Frederic Heidorn (East German guard (Pryor)), Nils Malten (East German guard (Donovan)), Nina Gummich (Hilton waitress), Burghart Klaussner (Harald Ott), Max Mauff (Ott's secretary), Jon Donahue (Agent Faye), Martin Dew (CIA agent (Glieneicker Bridge))