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Some children are glimpsed climbing over a wall. Then the train passes on its way from Brooklyn to Manhattan. An everyday morning scene for an insurance lawyer on his way to work. But this lawyer has undertaken a difficult mission abroad for his government at the time the Berlin Wall was built as, more or less literarily, an iron curtain. A banal scene of young people scrambling over a wall had an unmistakable poignancy for the recently returned lawyer [a real life character] played by Tom Hanks in A Bridge of Spies.
