Farewell

Farewell (2009)

L'Affaire Farewell

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.

Date of release
2009-09-23
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (144)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Director
Christian Carion

Casting

  • 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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