Bridge of Spies (2015)

Film Type:

Feature

Language:

English

Colour Info:

Color

Sound Mix:

Datasat Digital Sound, Dolby Digital

Camera:

ARRICAM Lite (LT), ARRICAM Studio (ST), ARRIFLEX 235, ARRIFLEX 435, ARRIFLEX 435 Advanced

Frame Rate:

24 fps

Aspect Ratio:

2.35:1

Stereoscopy:

No

Archival Source:

QubeVault

Taglines:

In the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stand for.
In a world on the brink the difference between war and peace was one honest man.

Filming Locations:

Trivia:

Set in the early stages of the Cold War, Bridge of Spies is inspired by the true-life story of James Donovan (Tom Hanks), a family man and insurance lawyer hired by the US government to defend Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance).While Donovan was reluctant to accept the case, fearing becoming a public figure and potential target in the nation's height of paranoia and fear, he eventually agreed to represent Able out of a commitment to his principles of justice and the protection of human rights. During the trial, Donovan and Abel developed an unexpected bond based on their mutual respect for each other's strength and commitment to their ideals.

This movie is being released in the same 2015 year as a number of other spy, espionage, intelligence, and secret agent movies, with a couple of them also comedies. The films include Spy (2015), Spectre (2015), Sicario (2015), Mortdecai (2015), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), and even Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), a 2014 film but which was mostly widely theatrically released in 2015.

The first Steven Spielberg film not to be scored by John Williams since "The Color Purple (1985)". In March 2015, after Williams' schedule was interrupted by a minor health issue which reportedly has since been corrected, Thomas Newman stepped in to replace him as composer.

Principal photography on "Bridge of Spies" began in September, 2014 and shot for 12 weeks on locations in New York, Germany and Poland, including many of the very places where the events in the story actually took place. European production kicked off in Berlin where the actual prisoner exchange of Abel and Powers took place. To film the crucial Berlin Wall sequences, production also traveled to Wrolcaw, Poland which more accurately resembles the East Berlin of 1961 than Berlin itself.

The 27th feature film directed by Steven Spielberg.

This is the second collaboration between Steven Spielberg and The Coen Brothers. Spielberg was the executive producer for The Coen Brothers' True Grit.

Spielberg's father actually went on a foreign exchange to Russia as an engineer during the cold war, right after Francis Gary Powers was shot down, when 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." When they saw the American engineers, they pointed at them and said, "Look what your country is doing to us," demonstrating the fear and rage the nations felt towards each other.

Partially filmed at Beale Air Force Base, California.

This will be Tom Hanks' fourth film collaboration with Steven Spielberg. They previously worked together on Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002) & The Terminal (2004).

First collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in over ten years. Their last collaboration was The Terminal (2004).

Discounting any of the Indiana Jones films, this is the first Steven Spielberg film to be shot with anamorphic lenses since Hook (1991).

Was filmed under the title of St. James Place.