I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Too much of everything

Brilliant and touching

Best movie ever!

I like spy films based on actual events,and this one is so. Pierre and Sergei, how they complete their missions, they are not James Bond, just normal people like you and me. And what attracts me most is that their ideology is really beyond our imagination. Sergei wants the Soviet Union to collapse in order to begin a new regime which will do good things for people, not the government now which is corruptive and full of bureaucracy. His action, in terms of law, is certainly betrayal of the country, but in a larger sense, he can, at least to a certain degree, be regarded as a patriotic.And Pierre, the normal social clerk is involved in such a large mission which lead directly to the collapse of the Soviet Union,that is what I admire most.

Exciting film that was adapted from the book Bonjour Farewell: La Vérité Sur la Taupe Française KGB (1997) by Serguei Kostine with screenplay by the same director Christian Carion and Eric Raynaud . It deals with a naïve French engineer based in Moscow and a KGB analyst, Sergei Grigoriev, on the Soviet Union's clandestine program aimed at stealing technology from the West and disillusioned with the Soviet regime . He was assigned the code-name Farewell by the French intelligence service DST, which recruited him and delivering documents to a French nebbish in the diplomatic corps . He was known by that name throughout NATO's intelligence services. The French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events.This interesting movie set during the Cold War packs suspense , thrills , tension, intrigue and familiar drama . The picture is an espionage thriller loosely based on actions of the high-ranking KGB official, Vladimir Vetrov . Good performances from main cast as Guillaume Canet as Pierre Froment ,Emir Kusturica as Sergei Gregoriev , Alexandra Maria Lara as Jessica Froment ; furthermore an excellent support cast as Fred Ward as Ronald Reagan , Niels Arestrup as Vallier , Willem Dafoe as Feeney , David Soul as Hutton and many cameos as Diane Kruger as Femme jogging , Benno Fürmann and Gary Lewis. Thrilling as well as sensitive musical score by Clint Mansell. Evocative and colorful cinematography by Walther van den Ende. The flick was well directed by Christian Carion who formerly made two good films such as ¨Happy Christmas¨ and ¨The girl from Paris¨ . The motion picture was well based on real events , these are the following : Vladimir Vetrov , in the film nicknamed Gregoriev , was born in 1932 and grew up within the Soviet system. After college, where he studied electronic engineering, he was enlisted in the KGB. He lived in France for five years, beginning in 1965 when posted there as a Line X officer working for the KGB's 'Directorate T', which specialized in obtaining advanced information about science and technology from western countries. While there, he befriended Jacques Prévost, an engineer working with Thomson-CSF. Vetrov returned to Moscow at the end of his posting. There, he rose through the ranks of Directorate T, eventually supervising the evaluation of the intelligence collected by Line X agents around the world, and passing key information to the relevant users inside the Soviet Union. Having become increasingly disillusioned with the Communist system, he decided to defect for purely ideological reasons . At the end of 1980, he contacted a Prévost and offered his services to the West. Between the spring of 1981 and early 1982, Vetrov gave the DST almost 4,000 secret documents, including the complete official list of 250 Line X officers stationed under legal cover in embassies around the world. Included was a breakdown of the Soviet espionage effort to collect scientific, industrial and technical information from the West to improve its own efforts. Members of the GRU, the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and several other bodies all took part in such efforts. Vetrov also provided summaries on the goals, achievements, and unfilled objectives of the program. He identified nearly 100 leads to sources in 16 countries. In February 1982, after heavy drinking caused by a cooling-off period imposed by the French, who were fearful of his discovery through too much contact, Vetrov stabbed his mistress during an argument in his car . When a man knocked on the car window, Vetrov thought his spying had been discovered, so he stabbed and killed the man. He happened to be another KGB officer. Vetrov was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 12 years in jail in the fall of 1982. While in jail, Vetrov carelessly revealed in letters that he had been involved in "something big" before going to jail. The KGB eventually discovered that he was a double agent. As part of his confession, Vetrov wrote a blistering denunciation of the Soviet system, "The Confession of a Traitor". News of his subsequent execution reached France in March 1985. The information which Vetrov provided enabled the western countries to expel nearly 150 Soviet technology spies around the world; the French expelled 47 Soviet spies, most of whom were from Line X. This caused the collapse of the Soviet's information program at a time when it was particularly crucial. The U.S. created a massive operation to provide the Soviets with faulty data and sabotaged parts for certain technologies, as a consequence to the Farewell Dossier.

What a brilliant movie. Spies, lies,twisted mind games. No explosions, no bullets, no exciting background music, no old hat tricks. Inspite of that, or better, because of that, tense, suspenseful and original movie. Real spies are not superheroes, flying through the air, ducking hundreds of bullets, overpowering dozens of villains with their martial arts skills unparalleled in the universe. Most of the time they happen to be, timid or coerced or dedicated to a cause. Their job is not glamorous, they scurry like rats in a dark alley, they sweat and smell,sometimes they live, most of the time they die. Finally the real spy movie, deep and harsh, leaving the sickening feeling. As usual the decent, courageous people get shoved aside or get killed for a higher cause- saving some ambitious creep's ass.

From the brilliant cinematography of the opening scene, this movie declares itself as a masterpiece. I watched it at the edge my seat till the end, laughing and crying for Emir Kusturica's Sergei, a bear of a man and hating my beloved Willem Defoe's blood curdling CIA chief Finn. Guillaume Canet as Pierre Froment is also very good, maddeningly naive and equally lovable; in fact movie is full of living and breathing real characters, although unfortunately all women are slightly shadowy compared to men. I loved the exquisite detail to the period with clothes, hair, glasses and atmosphere, particularly in Moscow. The story was grippingly interesting and every single scene, every bit of dialogue believable. I feel enriched for having watched L'affaire Farewell, Merci Christian Carion.