Farewell

2009 · directed by Christian Carion

Rating

70/100

Hit

no

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.

Farewell (2009), directed by Christian Carion, rates 70/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Guillaume Canet
• Emir Kusturica
• Alexandra Maria Lara
• Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
• Dina Korzun
• Evgeniy Kharlanov
• Niels Arestrup
• Willem Dafoe
• Fred Ward
• Philippe Magnan

Crew

• Walther van den Ende — Director of Photography
• Andrea Sedláčková — Editor
• Clint Mansell — Original Music Composer
• Christian Carion — Writer
• Eric Raynaud — Writer

More from Christian Carion

1. Driving Madeleine (2022) — 75/100
2. Joyeux Noel (2005) — 74/100
3. The Girl from Paris (2001) — 70/100
4. My Son (2017) — 58/100
5. Come What May (2015) — 56/100
6. My Son (2021) — 46/100

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