Farewell

Farewell

2009 · 113 min · FR · 6.5 (111 votes)
Dir. Christian Carion · Starring Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Dina Korzun, Evgeniy Kharlanov · Music Clint Mansell

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

ThrillerDrama

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.

VIBE

A chillingly quiet, dread-soaked descent into the paranoia of the Cold War. It feels like a slow, suffocating crawl through a labyrinth of secrets, where every whisper carries the weight of nations and the chill of the Iron Curtain.

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