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Farewell

Farewell

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 23, 2009

Runtime

1h 53m

Genres

Thriller, Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

L'Affaire Farewell

Production Companies

Le Bureau, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Une Hirondelle Productions, Blackfeet Pictures, Nord-Ouest Films

Director

Christian Carion

Description

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.