BRIDGE OF SPIES Clip - "Crossing" (2015) Tom Hanks 

Ever since I saw this movie, there’s a line that changed my life forever. Tom Hanks’s character asks the Russian spy as they walking in the bridge of he’s worried he’ll get killed for getting caught. The Russian spy simply responds with “will it help?”. And just like that…I never got nervous on decisions that were beyond my control. I applied for a higher ranking job, went through the interview and during the decision process, was not nervous one bit. I mean what the hell will that change? It’s not like being a nervous wreck was gonna influence anything. When I bid for a house same thing, when I was waiting for test results for a medical exam, ALL of those events I was cool as a cucumber. Because stressing over the outcomes was not going to change the outcome in by itself.

This is the Glienicke Bridge, the border crossing point 'Bridge of Spies', over the Havel connecting Wannsee in West Berlin with Potsdam. This was a Cold War border between West and East Germany until 1990. In this scene they were holding out for that second delivery to Checkpoint Charlie. You could see this bridge from Berlin Wannsee and it looks like they used the real one in the movie.

One of my favorite movies..makes me glad that i live in a generation where this film was released..

Thomas Newman's music...that crescendo to which it builds from 6:07...when the almighty horns take over with rapturous drums, and strings still majestic in the background...6:41 onwards...goosebumps!

Mark Rylance is so good.

Francis Gary Powers, He later worked as a helicopter pilot for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a helicopter crash in1977. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, He died in 1971 at the age of 68. His real identity and country of birth were only revealed after his death. His daughter reported that his last words in English were "Don't forget that we are Germans anyway". On 10 February 1962, Powers and the US student Frederic Pryor were exchanged for the Soviet KGB colonel Rudolf Abel. Due to political differences between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic at the time, Pryor was handed over to the American authorities at Checkpoint Charlie before the exchange of power for Abel was allowed to take place on the Glienicke Bridge. Powers attributed the exchange idea to his father. Upon his release, Powers' total time in captivity was 1 year, 9 months and 10 days.

I like how Abel looks at Powers's friend. Like KGB had this intricate question to make sure it was 'their guy" while Americans literally used "Hey bro".

Yes- Thomas Newmans score makes this movie. Just like it made Shawshank. Bloody brilliant.

'Abel' who was really a guy called Fisher died nine years later of lung cancer but was treated as a hero before that

This took place just a few years before I was born. I've been to Checkpoint Charlie and I patrolled the Inter-German Border... you call it The Iron Curtain, we called it 'the Trace'... as a young tank crewman with the 11th ACR in the 80's. Don't let the history books fool you...we came VERY close to nuclear war in that era and I had a front-tank view of it. After this movie was released, I did some reading on Powers, Donovan, Abel, and the exchange. While taking some liberties with the timeline and for dramatic effect, this film does depict the personalities honestly. It appears that Jim Donovan was every single bit the principled honest broker of the deal that Hanks and Spielberg portray him as. It's one of the few times that art and actual find that balance we all look for in a historical film. Postscripts: James Donovan was a USN Commander detailled to the OSS during War Two and was an assistant to Justice Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials, but was never a CIA asset. He interceded for the United States in events surrounding the release of prisoners after the Bay of Pigs. Sadly, he passed away of influenza at the age of 53 in 1970. For his efforts on behalf of the US Intelligence Community, he was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal [roughly equivalent to the Silver Star for military personnel], though I have no information on the date of the citation. Francis Gary Powers went on to work for KNBC in Los Angeles as a news helicopter pilot. He tragically died on the job in a helicopter crash in 1977 at the age of 47. I remember the nationwide coverage of his death as a kid. Rudolf Abel was a lifelong heavy smoker and passed away of lung cancer in 1971 at the age of 68. He was hailed by the KGB and the Soviet government as 'the spy that never broke'.

Woody:"He's saving for Wilson!"

Ever powerful movie. ❤

When I first saw this movie, it pissed me off that U.S. government officials were willing to leave a citizen of this country in the detention of the Russian government because he wasn't important enough. And before you scoffingly retort with the derisive "Do some research!!", there actually was a Frederic L. Pryor, and yes Donovan **insisted** that he be included in the swap (they wanted to try to trade for him later)

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Is that a Volvo P1800E?

damn i thought the title of this movie was a metaphor.

For the younger generation, who may not know, that is what integrity looks like.

2:04 What are they saying?

Hanks is a great actor, but I wouldn't trust him with my cat.

I don't know why Tom's so worried. It's not like Russians ever perform vicious, cruel, arbitrary acts of totalitarian terror on helpless...oh wait, I'm thinking of the Swiss.

There was no bridge at checkpoint charlie. It was in central Berlin close to the Brandenburger Gate

This is such a BS scene. Americans are happy and greeting each other. Smiles and hugs. Russians act like hes gonna be behaded right there. LoL. Guy was awarded Hero of USSR award, full pension and and an effin Cottage in a Moscow upstate. Give me a break.

This pseudo actor should go back to soap operas.