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Farewell (2009)

6.5 | Sep 23, 2009 (FR) | Thriller, Drama | 01:53

Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.

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.

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Guillaume Canet
Pierre Froment
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Emir Kusturica
Sergei Grigoriev
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Alexandra Maria Lara
Jessica Froment
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Fred Ward
Ronald Reagan
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Philippe Magnan
François Mitterrand

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Andres Gomez
7 | Oct 18, 2013
The performances are really good and the staging is quite believable and impressive. The plot is really well done ... the only problem is that it is really far from the actual facts.