YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6, ARMENPRESS. The premiere of Stiven Spielberg’s new “Bridge of Spies” movie held in New York 53th film festival. The film was accepted by ovations by the audience. “Armenpress” reports the aforesaid, citing INDEPENDENT website.

Bridge Of Spies marks Steven Spielberg’s first venture into Cold War espionage movie territory. Co-scripted by the Coen brothers and British writer Matt Charman, it is a consummately crafted, richly layered affair, with fine performances from Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance. The one hitch is that it is just too wholesome.

The film, based on actual events,  opens brilliantly with a chase sequence set in Brooklyn in 1957, at the height of the Cold War. Rylance plays Rudolf Abel, a Soviet agent who lives in a New York tenement and seems as dedicated to his painting as to his espionage. FBI agents are on to him. Spielberg’s recreation of Fifties New York is meticulous. He portrays a city in which all the men, Abel included, have crew cuts and dress in jackets and ties. Amid such conformity, it is very hard for the Feds to keep track of their quarry as they follow him through the subway and across packed streets.

As a captured Soviet agent at a time of intense Cold War paranoia and fear about the bomb, Rylance’s Abel becomes a figure of loathing for the American public. 

Hanks plays James Donovan, a wily but idealistic insurance lawyer who was part of the American team at the Nuremberg trials. He is assigned now to take on Abel’s defence. The idea is to give the Russian a show trial and then have him executed.