Tom Hanks must negotiate swap of US and Soviet agents during the Cold War in new trailer for Steven Spielberg's true story thriller Bridge Of Spies!

Saving Private Ryan, Catching Frank Abagnale, living in an airport - if there's one thing Steven Spielberg likes to do it's giving Tom Hanks tricky tasks. But he might have saved the hardest for last in his latest espionage thriller Bridge Of Spies. Based on real life events, Hanks plays Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan, who is tasked with negotiating the exchange of a captured US spy plane pilot for an undercover Soviet agent, right at the height of the Cold War.


'We are engaged in a war with the Soviet Union,' a voiceover in the new trailer ominously reports. 'This war for the moment does not involve men at arms; it involves information.' The clip sets up the 1960 U-2 incident in which a US spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory which the American government tried to cover up as a NASA accident, but were forced into an embarrassing admission when it later emerged the pilot had been captured alive. The trailer also shows the arrest of Soviet spy Rudolph Abel - played by Mark Rylance - who was caught passing information in hollowed out nickels in 1957.
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