Farewell

Foreign, True Story
4 stars
Interesting true story - untold until recently - of Cold War espionage in Russia in 1981. French and Russian with English subtitles. A French businessman working in Moscow gets pressured into becoming a liaison between his boss and a senior KGB officer who has become disenchanted with the Communist regime under Brezhnev. The Russian provides Top Secret intelligence to the French who in turn share with the USA. Guillaume Canet stars as the Frenchman, Emir Kusturica stars as the Russian informant, and smaller roles go to Willem Dafoe as the head of the CIA and Fred Ward as Ronald Reagan. Very well done and smartly told piece of history.