An American lawyer is recruited by the CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union. (135 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan
Storyline
In the cold war, A lawyer, James B. Donovan recruited by the CIA and
involved into an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a
CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers that was arrested alive after
his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission- with a
KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel who was arrested for espionage in
the US. Written by
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