L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL
THE FAREWELL AFFAIR
1981. In France the Socialists under François Mitterand have been voted into government. In the Soviet Union Sergey Grigoriev, a high-ranking KGB analyst disillusioned with the real existing socialism of his homeland, decides to pass on important state secrets to Paris. The role of middleman is fulfilled by a French engineer who reluctantly becomes increasingly involved in the affair to the extent that he forms an almost jovial relationship with the brawny secret service agent. A film about an unlikely spy-duo based on the events surrounding the former KGB spy Vladimir Vetrov.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Christian Carion, Eric Raynaud, Sergey Kostin
Walter van den Ende
Pierre Mertens, Thomas Desjonquères
Jean-Michel Simonet
Clint Mansell
Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Willem Dafoe, Fred Ward
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Christian Carion - born 1963 in Cambrai, France. Having graduated in engineering he initially worked for the Ministry of Agriculture. In 2001 Carion produced his first feature film together with the French filmmaker Christophe Rossignon.
UNE HIRONDELLE A FAIT LE PRINTEMPS (2001)
MERRY CHRISTMAS (2005)