Farewell

Farewell

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

2009 · 113 min · ★ 6.5 · Thriller, Drama

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 · Written by Christian Carion

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Guillaume Canet Pierre Froment
Emir Kusturica Sergei Grigoriev
Alexandra Maria Lara Jessica Froment
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė Natasha
Dina Korzun Alina
Evgeniy Kharlanov Igor
Niels Arestrup Vallier
Willem Dafoe Feeney
Fred Ward Ronald Reagan
Philippe Magnan François Mitterrand
David Soul Hutton
Christian Sandström FBI Agent

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