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Farewell

  • 6.9 /10

  • 137

Plot

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 as Pierre Froment
Guillaume Canet

as Pierre Froment

Emir Kusturica as Sergei Grigoriev
Emir Kusturica

as Sergei Grigoriev

Alexandra Maria Lara as Jessica Froment
Alexandra Maria Lara

as Jessica Froment

Dina Korzun as Alina
Dina Korzun

as Alina

Niels Arestrup as Vallier
Niels Arestrup

as Vallier

Willem Dafoe as Feeney
Willem Dafoe

as Feeney

Fred Ward as Ronald Reagan
Fred Ward

as Ronald Reagan

Philippe Magnan as François Mitterrand
Philippe Magnan

as François Mitterrand

Movie Facts

Rated

  • Not Rated

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • September 23, 2009

Production Companies

  • Le Bureau

  • Pathé

  • France 2 Cinéma

  • Une Hirondelle Productions

  • Blackfeet Pictures

  • Nord-Ouest Films

Production Countries

  • France

Spoken Language

  • Pусский

  • Français

  • English

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.88 hrs

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Reviews

The performances are really good and the staging is quite believable and impressive. The plot is really well done ... the only problem is that it is really far from the actual facts.