The second trailer for L'affaire Farewell.
Engaging, emotional and riveting, Farewellis an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history— about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of soviet information of the Cold War. A piece of history largely unknown until now, which Ronald Reagan called “one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century.”
Directed by Christian Carion, the Academy Award nominated filmmaker of Joyeux Noel (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, Pierre Froment, (French director Guillaume Canet), makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, (Palme d’Or and Golden Bear winner Emir Kusturica) a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev.
Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US. Torn between the fear of putting his wife (Alexandra Maria Lara) and children in danger 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 tipping point of collapse, forcing the KGB to escalate its search for the leak, and placing the two men and their families in extreme peril.
2 min 22 sec
Views
11,912
Posted On
June 20, 2010
Christian Carion
Writer
Christian Carion
Studio
Independent
Release
July 23, 2010
Emir Kusturica
Guillaume Canet
Fred Ward
Willem Dafoe
Alexandra Maria Lara
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