Farewell 2009

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

6.5 / 10   116 vote(s)
Thriller Drama

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.

Release Date 2009-09-23
Runtime 1h 53m
Directors Christian Carion, Walther van den Ende
Producers Philip Boëffard, Bertrand Faivre, Christophe Rossignon
Writers Christian Carion, Eric Raynaud, Serguei Kostine

The performances are really good and the staging is quite believable and impressive.

The plot is really well done ... the only problem is that it is really far from the actual facts.

Andres Gomez