Spielberg takes Thriller shot down over the USSR pilot Powers

American film Director Steven Spielberg has started shooting a new film in the spy Thriller genre, Bignews2day.com reports, citing Studio DreamWorks Pictures.

The plot of the upcoming film titled Bridge of Spies ("Bridge of spies") based on real events.


In the new film, Spielberg tells the story of American pilot Francis Gary powers, was carrying out a reconnaissance mission on the U-2 aircraft over Soviet territory. may 1, 1960, he was shot down over Sverdlovsk, but survived.

Powers was sentenced by a Soviet court for espionage to 10 years of imprisonment. Half of which he served in the famous prison "Vladimir Central (now SIZO No. 1 of Vladimir), and then exchanged for a famous Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, exposed in the USA.

The exchange took place at the "bridge of spies" as he called the Glienicke bridge in Berlin, where recently filmed these scenes.