L'affaire Farewell is a 2009 French film directed by Christian Carion, starring Guillaume Canet and Emir Kusturica. The film is an espionage thriller loosely based on actions of the high-ranking KGB official, Vladimir Vetrov. It was released in the United States in June 2010, under the title Farewell. It was adapted from the book Bonjour Farewell: La vérité sur la taupe française du KGB by Serguei Kostine. In the early 1980s, a high-ranking KGB analyst, Sergei Grigoriev, disillusioned with the Soviet regime, decides to pass Soviet secrets, including a list of Soviet spies, to... the government of France, then under the newly-elected President François Mitterrand, a Socialist in coalition with the Communist Party. Grigoriev hopes to force change in the Soviet Union by revealing their extensive network of spies trying to acquire scientific, technical and industrial information from the West. He uses Pierre Froment, a naïve French engineer based in Moscow, as his unlikely intermediary.
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| Release date: | September 23, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Christian Carion |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 113 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bertrand Faivre, Philippe Boeffard, Christophe Rossignon |
| Editor: | Andrea Sedlácková |
| Music by: | Clint Mansell |
| Cinematography: | Walther van den Ende |
| Screenplay by: | Christian Carion, Eric Raynaud |
| Adapted from: | Bonjour Farewell |
| Genre: | Thriller |