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voor de liefhebbers van franse thrillers :)

L'affaire Farewell (2009)

In the vein of The Lives Of Others and based on an incredible true story, FAREWELL is an espionage film about events that changed history. In 1981, Colonel Grigoriev (Kusturica) of the KGB, disenchanted with the Communist ideal, decides he is going to change the world. Discreetly, he makes contact with Pierre (Canet), a French engineer working in Moscow and little by little passes on documents to him - mainly concerning the United States - containing information which would constitute the most important Cold War espionage operation known to date. During a period of two years, French President, Francois Mitterrand and US chief Ronald Reagan were to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow, to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename Farewell. Farewell smuggled out information that would cause ructions that sounded the death bell of the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall would fall before the end of the 80s. In his own way, Farewell managed to change the world, by avoiding traditional espionage methods too well known to the KGB and by not asking for any financial compensation whatsoever, much too capitalist for his taste. He simply followed his destiny, so that a new world might dawn for his fellow Russians, but especially for his son. 

Cast  (Cast overview, first billed only)
 Emir Kusturica ...  Sergei Gregoriev 
 Guillaume Canet ...  Pierre Froment 
 Alexandra Maria Lara ...  Jessica Froment 
 Ingeborga Dapkunaite ...  Natasha 
 Aleksey Gorbunov ...  Choukhov (as Oleksii Gorbunov) 
 Dina Korzun ...  Alina 
 Philippe Magnan ...  François Mitterrand 
 Niels Arestrup ...  Vallier 
 Fred Ward ...  Ronald Reagan 
 David Soul ...  Hutton 
 Willem Dafoe ...  Feeney 
 Evgeniy Kharlanov ...  Igor (as Evgenie Kharlanov) 
 Valentin Varetsky ...  Anatoly 
 Diane Kruger ...  Femme jogging 
 Benno Fürmann  

Source: DVD 
Format: XviD 
Audio: MP3 
Language: French 
Size: 933.4MB 
Subs: none
when other languages are spoken: subforced french

Thnaks to Rico :)