'Bridge of Spies'-Tom Hanks (2015)

[거사 해설]:  천의 얼굴을 가진 Tom Hanks의 영화를 매우 좋아한다. 특히, Cast Away, Save Private Ryan, Forest Gump, Davinci Codes 등--.  여기 소개한 영화는 보험 변호사인 Donovan은  1957년에 구 소련의 스파이로 체포된 Abel의 변호를 맡는다. 당시 최악의 적의 스파이를 사형 대신에 30년 형을 받아내고 대법원에 까지 상소하면서 변호한다는 일로 집에 총탄이 날아오는 등,  온갖 시련을 겪지만, CIA는 1960년에 USSR의 70,000 ft 상공에서 정탐하던 중 격추되어 생포된 U-2 조종사인 Powers 만 교환하여 귀국시키는 걸 원했다. 그는 민간인 입장으로 협상차 동독에 가면서 식구들한테는 영국으로 낚시하러 간다고 속였지만, 갖은 고생 끝에 뚝심으로 버텨서 동독에있는 교수집에 갔다가 돌아오는 길에 체포된 미국의 독일 유학생 Pryor까지 Two for one의 deal을 성사시킨다. 그런데 Donovan과 Abel이 주고 받든 대화가 재밌다. "Don't you worry about--?" 을 Donovan이 여러 차례 물을 때마다 Abel은 침착하게 "No, it dosen't help me at all-." 라고 대답하였다. 

Plot:

In 1957 New York City, Rudolf Abel is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union, and insurance lawyer James B. Donovan is appointed to be Abel's legal counsel. Committed to the principle that the accused deserves a vigorous defense, he mounts the best defense of Abel he can, declining along the way to cooperate in the CIA's attempts to induce him to violate the confidentiality of his communications with his client.

Abel is convicted, but Donovan convinces the judge to spare Abel the death penalty because Abel had been serving his country honorably, and he might prove useful for a future prisoner exchange; Abel is sentenced to 30 years. Donovan appeals the conviction to the Supreme Court based on the lack of a search warrant for the seizure of Abel's ciphers and photography equipment. For his principled stand, Donovan and his family are harassed, including shots being fired at their home. The conviction is upheld.

In 1960, Gary Powers, a pilot in the CIA's top-secret U-2 spy plane program, is shot down over the USSR. He is captured and sentenced in a show trial to ten years' confinement, including three years in prison.

Donovan receives a letter from East Germany, purportedly sent by Abel's wife, thanking him and urging him to get in contact with their lawyer, whose name is Vogel. The CIA thinks this is a back-channel message hinting that the USSR is willing to swap Powers for Abel. They unofficially ask Donovan to go to Berlin to negotiate the exchange; he arrives just as the Berlin Wall is going up. Crossing into East Berlin, he meets with a KGB officer in the Soviet Embassy and is then directed to Vogel, who represents the Attorney General of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The Attorney General seeks to swap Abel for an American graduate student named Frederic Pryor, who had been arrested in East Germany; in the process, the GDR hopes to gain official recognition by the United States.

The CIA wants Donovan to disregard Pryor but he insists that both Pryor and Powers be swapped for Abel. In a message to the Attorney General, he bluffs that they will either release Pryor with Powers or there will be no deal. The exchange of Powers and Abel is to take place at the Glienicke Bridge, with Pryor to be released simultaneously at Checkpoint Charlie. Tension builds as Pryor fails to arrive. The CIA, still primarily concerned with Powers, tell Abel he can go, but he refuses to move. It is confirmed that Pryor has been released, and the exchange takes place.

The next day, back in the United States, the government publicly acknowledges Donovan for negotiating the deal that rehabilitates his public image. (scripted from Wikipedia)