Bridge of Spies

Continuity mistake: When the CIA official is briefing Powers and the other pilots in a hotel room, he sits on a chair in one shot. In the next shot, he jumps a few feet closer to the pilots. (00:23:00)

Continuity mistake: When Powers is woken up at night and interrogated with water thrown at him, his hairstyle changes in every shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Tom Hanks is sitting in the hallway of the German Attorney General's office speaking with the receptionist, his left collar tab is inside his sweater, then in the next shot it is outside the sweater, then it returns inside, followed by the right collar tab being out of the sweater, which returns to the inside of his sweater when he stands up. (01:51:05)

Paul S

Factual error: At the beginning of the film, as Rudolf Abel is trying to evade the FBI, he gets on the subway. It's 1957 but the subway train he's in is a model that wasn't produced until 1964.

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James Donovan: We have to have the conversations our governments can't.

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