Andres Gomez
Oct 18, 2013
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.


Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.
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.
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Andres Gomez
Oct 18, 2013
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.
The film's tagline is: "Some secrets have the power to change the course of history."
The original title is "L'Affaire Farewell" (FR).
The runtime is 113 minutes (1h 53m).
The film features dialogue in 3 languages: Russian, French, English.
The film was directed by Christian Carion.
The screenplay was written by Christian Carion and Eric Raynaud.
The score was composed by Clint Mansell.
Cinematography was handled by Walther van den Ende.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt0806029.

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Good
137 votes
Critic avg. 7.0 (1 reviews)
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L'Affaire Farewell
Released
AL
Pусский, Français, English
France



