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Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) - Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Carion
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Movie propaganda
In the vein of The lives of others (Das leben der anderen) and based on an incredible true story, Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) is an espionage film about events that changed history.
In 1981, Colonel Gregoriev (Emir Kusturica) of the KGB, disenchanted with the Communist ideal, decides he is going to change the world. Discreetly, he makes contact with Pierre (Guillaume Canet), a French engineer working 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 (Philippe Magnan) and US chief Ronald Reagan (Fred Ward) were to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow, to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename Farewell.
Farewell smuggled out information that would cause ructions that sounded the death bell 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 his fellow Russians, but especially for his son.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film France thriller true Cold War Russia USSR spy biography KGB Communism French Russian secret Eighties
Persons of interest
- Emir Kusturica .... Sergei Gregoriev
- Guillaume Canet .... Pierre Froment
- Alexandra Maria Lara .... Jessica Froment
- Ingeborga Dapkunaite .... Natasha
- Aleksey Gorbunov .... Choukhov
- Dina Korzun .... Alina
- Philippe Magnan .... François Mitterrand
- Niels Arestrup .... Vallier
- Fred Ward .... Ronald Reagan
- David Soul .... Hutton
- Willem Dafoe .... Feeney
- Evgeniy Kharlanov .... Igor
- Valentin Varetsky .... Anatoly
- Benno Fürmann
- Gary Lewis
- Lauriane Riquet .... Ophélie
- Timothé Riquet .... Damien
- Serguei Kostine .... Author: Bonjour Farewell
- Christian Carion .... Screenwriter
- Eric Raynaud .... Screenwriter
- Christian Carion .... Director
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- NB: English, French and Russian language dialogue with English language subtitles
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Theatrical report
The France, thriller, true movie Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) is directed by Christian Carion and stars Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara.
Government security censorship classification
M (Mature themes and infrequent coarse language)
Surveillance time
109 minutes (1:49 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 1 July 2010
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