Farewell (2009)

6.5/10 113 min Thriller Drama

Overview

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

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

Diane Kruger

Jogging spy

Christian Carion

Mitterrand advisor

Gary Lewis

Scottish chemist

Benno Fürmann

Riko Eklundh

Agent du FBI 1

Svetlana Kuzmina

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