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    Farewell

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    L'Affaire Farewell
    France
    2009     Thriller    
    1h 53min
    Original lang: French, English, Russian
    G
    PG
    PG

    In 1981, Colonel Grigoriev of the KGB (real name - Vladimir Vetrov), disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev, decides he is going to change the world... Discreetly, he makes contact with a French engineer working for Thomson in Moscow and little by little passes on documents to him - mainly concerning the United States - containing information which would constitute the most important Cold War espionage operation known to date. During a period of two years, French President, François Mitterrand, was to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow, to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename "Farewell". Then master of the White House, Ronald Reagan, set aside his reluctance to work with a French Socialist to put this unhoped-for information from the very heart of the KGB to use. Farewell would in fact decapitate the network which enabled the KGB to gain in-depth knowledge of scientific, industrial and military research in the West. Once the USSR had been deprived of these precious sources of information, Ronald Reagan's announcement of the new "Star Wars" military programme sounded the death knell of the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall would fall before the end of the 80s... In his own way, Farewell managed to change the world, by avoiding traditional espionage methods too well known to the KGB and by not asking for any financial compensation whatsoever -- much too capitalist for his taste. He simply followed his destiny, so that a new world might dawn for all his fellow Russians, but especially for his son.

    Directed byChristian Carion
    Written byChristian Carion
    CompanyEntertainment OneEntertainment OneSeville

    Starring

    Guillaume Canet
    Emir Kusturica
    Alexandra Maria Lara
    Niels Arestrup
    Fred Ward
    Willem Dafoe
    Diane Kruger
    John Wayne
    Benno Fürmann
    Gary Lewis
    Lee Marvin
    Woody Strode
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