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Farewell (2009)
Directed by Christian Carion
“Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.”
Thriller, Drama · 1h 53m
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.
Cast
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
C
Christian Sandström
FBI Agent
Crew
- Director
- Christian Carion
- Writer
- Christian Carion, Eric Raynaud
- Director of Photography
- Walther van den Ende
- Original Music Composer
- Clint Mansell
- Editor
- Andrea Sedláčková
- Producer
- Philip Boëffard, Bertrand Faivre, Christophe Rossignon
Details
- Original title
- L'Affaire Farewell
- Release date
- 2009-09-23
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Russian, French, English
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Le Bureau, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Une Hirondelle Productions, Blackfeet Pictures, Nord-Ouest Films