However some of the most celebrated exchanges happened on Glinicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, where the line between East and West used to be (marked by white cross on the photo below).
And here is the climax of the 1968 Soviet spy film 'Off-season' ("Мёртвый сезон"): Russian spy Ladeynikov walks across the bridge towards American Nichols. The actors are both Lithuanian, so the joke was: 'They swapped one Lithuanian for another'. But the fact is, the film was consulted by Konon Molody (alias Gordon Lonsdale), arguably the most successful Russian illegal spy, then safely back in Moscow. The film's main character is based on Molody.
Glienicke bridge (photo by Torsten Henning):
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