French
Farewell
In FAREWELL, it's 1981, and Sergei Gregoriev, EMIR KUSTURICA, a high-ranking KGB officer, adopts a daring plan to end the corrupt Brezhnev regime; needing a go-between to the West, and knowing that the CIA operatives in Moscow are closely watched, along with most Americans, he chooses Pierre, GUILLAUME CANET, a French engineer who lives in the French diplomatic residency with his wife and children.
Unhappy about his unwanted role as a spy, Pierre nevertheless passes on the documents given to him by Sergei, code-named Farewell, information vital to the western allies...
Wary that the newly elected President Mitterand, PHILIPPE MAGNAN, has communists in his ministry, President Reagan, FRED WARD, is not disposed to trust the French - until he receives the information channelled through Pierre...
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Thursday 26th August
Ace Cinema - Busselton | General Screening | 17:15
Saturday 28th August
Ace Cinema - Busselton | General Screening | 10:15
An extraordinary but little-known episode in international espionage, one that greatly greased the rails for the Soviet Union's downfall, is fluently recounted in "Farewell." Production values are aces and accurate down to the smallest details of Russian life at the time.
Todd McCarthy
Director
Christian Carion
