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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Lauriane Riquet, Timothé Riquet, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Niels Arestrup, Aleksey Gorbunov, Valentin Varetskiy, David Soul, Philippe Magnan, Dina Korzun, Evgeniy Kharlanov, Guillaume Canet, Fred Ward ...MORE

Cast: Lauriane Riquet, Timothé Riquet, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Niels Arestrup, Aleksey Gorbunov, Valentin Varetskiy, David Soul, Philippe Magnan, Dina Korzun, Evgeniy Kharlanov, Guillaume Canet, Fred Ward, Willem Dafoe, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Thriller, World cinema

L'affaire Farewell (English: The Farewell Affair) is a 2009 French film directed by Christian Carion, starring Guillaume Canet and Emir Kusturica. The film is an espionage thriller loosely based on actions of the high-ranking KGB official, Vladimir Vetrov. It was released in the United States in June 2010, under the title Farewell. It was adapted from the book Bonjour Farewell: La vérité sur la taupe française du KGB (1997) by Serguei Kostine. In the early 1980s, a high-ranking KGB analyst, disillusioned with the Soviet regime, decides to pass Soviet secrets, including a list of Soviet... MORE

L'affaire Farewell (English: The Farewell Affair) is a 2009 French film directed by Christian Carion, starring Guillaume Canet and Emir Kusturica. The film is an espionage thriller loosely based on actions of the high-ranking KGB official, Vladimir Vetrov. It was released in the United States in June 2010, under the title Farewell. It was adapted from the book Bonjour Farewell: La vérité sur la taupe française du KGB (1997) by Serguei Kostine. In the early 1980s, a high-ranking KGB analyst, disillusioned with the Soviet regime, decides to pass Soviet secrets, including a list of Soviet spies, to the government of France, then under the newly-elected President François Mitterrand, a Socialist in coalition with the Communists. Grigoriev hopes to force change in the Soviet Union by revealing their extensive network of spies trying to acquire scientific, technical and industrial information from the West. He uses a naïve French engineer based in Moscow as his unlikely intermediary, despite his lack of espionage skills. After the first transfer of information, Pierre confides in his wife Jessica, who is adamant about his stopping to preserve their family. Grigoriev persuades Pierre to LESS