Farewell
Emotional, engaging and riveting, FAREWELL can be an intricate and extremely intelligent thriller about a ordinary man thrust in the largest theft of information about the coldwar. Ronald Reagan called this piece of history - largely unknown until today -"one of the main espionage cases of the 20th century." FAREWELL starts in 1981, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French journalist situated in Moscow,'' Pierre Froment, (Guillaume Canet) makes an unlikely experience of Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica), '' a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment information that is sensitive .