Farewell

Sep 23, 2009

1h 53m

★ 6.5

Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Le Bureau

Pathé

France 2 Cinéma

Une Hirondelle Productions

Blackfeet Pictures

Nord-Ouest Films

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Cast

Pierre Froment

Guillaume Canet

Sergei Grigoriev

Emir Kusturica

Jessica Froment

Alexandra Maria Lara

Natasha

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Alina

Dina Korzun

Igor

Evgeniy Kharlanov

Vallier

Niels Arestrup

Feeney

Willem Dafoe

Ronald Reagan

Fred Ward

François Mitterrand

Philippe Magnan

Hutton

David Soul

FBI Agent

Christian Sandström

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