Farewell
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2009-09-23
Runtime: 113 mins
Director: Christian Carion
Writer: Christian Carion, Eric Raynaud
Spoken language: English, Français, Pусский
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Original title: Farewell
Production Companies: Le Bureau, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Une Hirondelle Productions, Blackfeet Pictures, Nord-Ouest Films
Production Countries: France
Cast
Guillaume Canet
Emir Kusturica
Alexandra Maria Lara
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Dina Korzun
Evgeniy Kharlanov
Niels Arestrup
Willem Dafoe
Fred Ward
Philippe Magnan
David Soul
Christian Sandström
Diane Kruger
Christian Carion
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