Farewell

Farewell

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

2009•1h 53m•6.5/10

ThrillerDrama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.5/10(136)

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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Production

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

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Guillaume Canet

Guillaume Canet

Pierre Froment

Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica

Sergei Grigoriev

Alexandra Maria Lara

Alexandra Maria Lara

Jessica Froment

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Natasha

Dina Korzun

Dina Korzun

Alina

Evgeniy Kharlanov

Evgeniy Kharlanov

Igor

Niels Arestrup

Niels Arestrup

Vallier

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

Feeney

Fred Ward

Fred Ward

Ronald Reagan

Philippe Magnan

Philippe Magnan

François Mitterrand

David Soul

David Soul

Hutton

Christian Sandström

FBI Agent

Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger

Jogging spy

Christian Carion

Christian Carion

Mitterrand advisor

Gary Lewis

Gary Lewis

Scottish chemist

Benno Fürmann

Benno Fürmann

Riko Eklundh

Riko Eklundh

Agent du FBI 1

Svetlana Kuzmina

Svetlana Kuzmina

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