Farewell (2009)
L'affaire Farewell
Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.
113 min
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.
- Release date
- September 23, 2009
- Country of origin
- France
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Trailer
Cast
- Guillaume Canet as Pierre
- Emir Kusturica as Grigoriev
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Jessica
- Ingeborga Dapkunaite as Natasha
- Dina Korzun as Alina
- Evgeniy Kharlanov as Igor
- Niels Arestrup as Vallier
- Willem Dafoe as Feeney
- Fred Ward as Reagan
- Philippe Magnan as Mitterrand
- David Soul as Hutton
- Christian Sandström as FBI Agent
- Diane Kruger as Jogging spy
- Christian Carion as Mitterrand advisor
- Gary Lewis as Scottish chemist
- Benno Fürmann
- Riko Eklundh as Agent du FBI 1
- Aleksey Gorbunov as Choukhov
Crew
- Christian Carion · Director
- Eric Raynaud · Writer
- Christian Carion · Writer
- Sergey Kostin · Writer
- Philip Boëffard · Producer
- Bertrand Faivre · Producer
- Christophe Rossignon · Producer
- Clint Mansell · Composer
- Walther van den Ende · Cinematographer
- Andrea Sedlácková · Editor
- Gigi Akoka · Casting director
- Susie Figgis · Casting director
- Jean-Michel Simonet · Production designer