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aka L'AFFAIRE FAREWELL
Year: 2009
USA: NeoClassics Films
UK: The Works UK Distribution
Cast: Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ingeborga
Dapkunaite, Oleksii Gorbunov, Dina Korzun, Philippe Magnan, Niels Arestrup, Fred
Ward, David Soul, Willem Dafoe, Evgenie Kharlanov, Valentin Varetsky
Director: Christian Carion
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 113 mins
USA Rated: Unrated
UK Certificate: 12A contains strong language
USA Release Date: 23 July 2010 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 29 April 2011 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is based on the
astonishing true story. An intricate and highly intelligent
thriller, the film uncovers a little known historical and crucial
espionage mission from the 1980s, and concerns an ordinary man
thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War.
Directed by Christian Carion, the Academy Award® nominated
filmmaker of JOYEUX NÖEL (MERRY CHRISTMAS), FAREWELL begins in
1981, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. US/Soviet relations
are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French
businessman based in Moscow, Froment, (French director Guillaume
Canet - TELL NO ONE), makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, (Palme
d’Or and Golden Bear winner Emir Kusturica, UNDERGROUND) 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.
Torn between the fear of putting his wife (Alexandra Maria Lara -
THE READER) and children in a perilous situation and the desire to
know more, Froment brings the documents to the French government.
Soon, the flow of information reaches the White House and brings the
Soviet regime to the edge of collapse, forcing the KGB to escalate
its search for the leak, and placing the two men and their families
in extreme danger.
Official Selection 2009 Toronto and Telluride Film Festival – 2010
Seattle International Film Festival.
Winner, Special Mention, Audience Prize, 2010 COLCOA Film
Festival
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