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All starts with a person called,
“Rudolf Abel”
An English-born Soviet intelligence
officer. Also an artist. Who’s work was to
passthrough the Atomic Secrets to the
Soviet Government. (USSR)
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He got arrested by FBI in his
hotel room.
But FBI didn’t got any
information extracted from
Abel.
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An insurance lawyer James B. Donovan was selected to defense
Abel. Then he became the second hated person in America after
Abel.
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An American Pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Was selected by CIA for the U-2
Program.
Power's U-2 got shot by missile while
flying over the soviet territory while
taking photos.
Soviet arrested and kept Power
alive to get information about U-2.
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Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense
negotiation mission to release and exchange CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot,
Francis G. Powers.
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In August 1961, days after the Berlin
Wall was erected, Frederic Pryor
visited East Berlin to deliver a copy of his
dissertation to a professor there and got
arrested by Stasi.
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Donovan 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.
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Once in East Berlin, Donovan has to
negotiate the turf-war minefield of Soviet
Russia and communist East Berlin
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Abel and Pryor in Checkpoint Charlie were released
at the same day.
Abel gave a painting to Donovan in order to
take this as a gift for his work.
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The movie also gives us intriguing visual rhymes,
duplications perhaps inspired by the Berlin wall.
“An old-school spy thriller that knows how to build
tension and tighten it.”