
Farewell
Fascinating, emotional and engaging, FAREWELL is an intricate and intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of historyabout an ordinary man thrust into Soviet information of the Cold War's greatest theft. Ronald Reagan predicted this piece of history - largely unknown until today -"perhaps probably one of the main espionage cases of the 20th century" FAREWELL begins after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1981. A French journalist based in Moscow,'' Pierre Froment, (Guillaume Canet) creates an improbable connection with Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica), '' a senior KGB officer disenchanted in what the Presidential perfect has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network inside america.
Released: 2009-09-04
Genre:
Drama , Thriller
Casts:
Willem Dafoe , Guillaume Canet , Niels Arestrup , Emir Kusturica , Fred Ward
Duration: 113
min
Country:
France
Production:
Canal+ , Une Hirondelle Productions , Pathé! , France 2 Cinéma , Nord-Ouest Films , Le Bureau , Nord-Ouest Productions , Cofinova 5 , CinéCinéma , Blackfeet Pictures