Farewell

Release Date: 2009-09-23

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.

Rating: 6.5 / 10

Cast

Guillaume Canet

as Pierre Froment

Emir Kusturica

as Sergei Grigoriev

Alexandra Maria Lara

as Jessica Froment

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

as Natasha

Dina Korzun

as Alina

Crew

Christian Carion - Director
Clint Mansell - Original Music Composer
Philip Boëffard - Producer
Gigi Akoka - Casting
Serguei Kostine - Original Story

Reviews

Andres Gomez:

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....