Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Germany, India
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- spy
- cold war
- soviet union
- pilot
- based on true story
- lawyer
- american
- courtroom
- russian spy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Sebastian Koch — Wolfgang Vogel
- Austin Stowell — Francis Gary Powers
- Billy Magnussen — Doug Forrester
- Michael Simon Hall — Reporter
- Edward James Hyland — Chief Justice Earl Warren
- Stephen Kunken — William Tompkins
- Mike Houston — Man in Courtroom
- James Lorinz — Gentleman on Subway #2
- Michael Power — NYPD
- Joe Starr — Courthouse Reporter #1
- Merab Ninidze — Soviet Main Interrogator
- Directed
- Steven Spielberg
- Written
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Matt Charman
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 7,366 ratings
- Studio
- TSG Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment, Studio Babelsberg, Fox 2000 Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, Participant
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
