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  2. Jun 11, 2020 · Steven Spielberg 's Bridge of Spies dramatizes an incredible spy exchange that took place at the height of the Cold War. It stars Tom Hanks as attorney James Donovan, a man who first...

  3. Oct 9, 2015 · The true story behind Bridge of Spies reveals that it took several months of negotiating before James Donovan was sent to meet face to face with the second secretary of the Soviet Embassy, Ivan Schischkin, in East Germany. During those months, Donovan worked with the Department of Justice to set up the prisoner exchange.

  4. Feb 24, 2016 · ‘Bridge of Spies’: The True Story is Even Stranger Than Fiction — ProPublica. Steven Spielbergs movie captures the essence of the Cold War in the tale of a man whose “legend” was so...

  5. Set during the Cold War, the film tells the story of lawyer James B. Donovan, who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers —a convicted Central Intelligence Agency pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960—in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a convicted Soviet KGB spy held by the United States, whom D...

  6. Nov 27, 2015 · Directed by Steven Spielberg, 'Bridge of Spies' is a dramatic thriller which tells the story of James Donovan (played by Tom Hanks), a Brooklyn insurance claims lawyer who finds himself...

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  7. Nov 24, 2015 · Bridge of Spies: the real story behind Spielberg's Cold War film. Spielberg's film uses real events, but overplays its portrayal of Donovan as a lone freedom fighter. By The Week Staff....

  8. Bridge of Spies is a daring, studied and mannered true story that is at once remarkably genuine and deeply cinematic at the same time.

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