- HD 1080
- Runtime: 113m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France
- Director: Christian Carion
- Stars: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Dina Korzun
- keywords: france, espionage, cold war, soviet union, iron curtain, kgb, based on true story, double agent
- Production_studio: Le Bureau, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Une Hirondelle Productions, Blackfeet Pictures, Nord-Ouest Films
- Slogan: Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.
- The Farewell is featured in the top rankings of 2009
- #50 in Top Thriller Movies of 2009
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.
