Farewell (L'affaire Farewell)
Directed by: Christian CarionCast list: Guillaume Canet (Pierre), Emir Kusturica (Sergei), Fred Ward (Ronald), Willem Dafoe (Feeney), Alexandra Maria Lara (Jessica), Diane Kruger
Country: France
Year: 2009
Genres: Drama / Thriller /
Runtime: 113 min.
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This film is an adaptation from the book Bonjour Farewell: La vérité sur la taupe française du KGB (1997) by Serguei Kostine. In 1981, Sergei Gregoriev, a Soviet colonel, wants to force his nation to reform, so he leaks secret information to the West. He picks an unlikely contact, a Pierre Froment, French nebbish in the diplomatic corps. Gregoriev keeps a lot of balls in the air - a marriage, a teen son he's trying to bond with, a mistress who's a colleague at work; his tradecraft is equally reckless. Meanwhile, Froment keeps his spy work secret from his German wife, and Mitterrand uses Gregoriev's information to make France indispensable to Reagan and his government. When Gregoriev leaks a list of key Soviet moles and spies, Gorbachev is left without secret intelligence.
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Subjects: French / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / human relations, psychology, sociology / film adaptation of literary or graphic work / politics, political systems /
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