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Running Time
113
min
MPAA rating
Unrated
Release Date
Jul 30, 2010
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell)
Engaging, emotional and riveting, "Farewell" is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history -- about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called this piece of history -- largely unknown until now, "one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century."
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Spy movies are usually all about professionalism, but Christian Carion’s “Farewell’’ is a true-life espionage thriller told from the point of view of two amateurs: a KGB officer, code-named “Farewell,’’ who wanted to bring down his own government, and the French electronics engineer who became his handler and friend. It’s a bizarre, provocative story and a moving one, but it doesn’t access the richer levels and themes of the film the publicity campaign obviously wants you to think of: 2006’s “The Lives of Others.’’
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