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Kristalina Georgieva's favourite film, the International Monetary Fund boss told the audience at a packed panel event in Washington on Thursday, is Tom Hanks's cold war romp Bridge of Spies.

In one of the stranger digressions in a frequently strange week, Georgieva recalled the moment when Hanks's character, a US lawyer, tells the Soviet spy he has been appointed to defend that he will probably be executed. You don't seem alarmed," Hanks says to him; to which the spy - played by Mark Rylance - replies, Would it help?"