Farewell
L'affaire Farewell
2009, Film, 113 min, Drama, Romance, Thriller, French, France, MoviePedia score 66
Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Directed by Christian Carion
Cast
- Guillaume Canet as Pierre
- Emir Kusturica as Grigoriev
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Jessica
- Ingeborga Dapkunaite as Natasha
- Philippe Magnan as Mitterrand
- Aleksey Gorbunov as Choukhov
- Dina Korzun as Alina
- Niels Arestrup as Vallier
- David Soul as Hutton
- Fred Ward as Reagan
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