The Courier (2020)
Movie (2020)
Russian title : Игры шпионов
French title : Un espion ordinaire
German title : Der Spion (2020)
Starring:
Benedict Cumberbatch (Greville Wynne)
Merab Ninidze (Oleg Penkovsky)
Rachel Brosnahan (Emily Donovan, CIA officer)
Jessie Buckley (Sheila, Wynne's wife)
July 1960 : Soviet Colonel Oleg Penkovsky is afraid by the new nuclear goal of Nikita Khrushchev.
Vickers 701 Viscount
Reg. G-AMOA Vickers 701 Viscount c/n 9 was scrapped in 1971 so this shooting has been digitally retouched. More to read on the Discussion tab.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
During a later trip in Moscow, G-ALWF Vickers 701 Viscount c/n 5 named R M A Sir John Franklin by BEA - British European Airways is shown as is (registration can be guessed despite blurred background). This airframe is preserved in good condition at The Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Lisunov Li-2
CGI of what must be a Li-2 or is it a reworked Duxford DC-3 with Soviet registration?
Tupolev Tu-16 (not seen)
Given as the Tsar Bomba, this footage is more probably showing the first Soviet test of a "true" hydrogen bomb (the RDS-37 launch on 22 November 1955 from a Tupolev Tu-16).
As seen in Sakharov. Dve zhizni, the Tsar Bomba's shape is more slender.
No matter! According to the script, the date is the 30 October 1961, one year before the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Lockheed U-2
14 October 1962.
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