---
title: 'Farewell (2009)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Christian Carion'
released: '2009-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 113
genres:
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/farewell-2009'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806029/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Farewell (2009)

2009 · 113 min · Thriller · France


## Synopsis

Farewell is a 2009 French espionage thriller film directed by Christian Carion, starring Guillaume Canet and Emir Kusturica. The film is loosely based on the actions of the high-ranking KGB official, Vladimir Vetrov. It was released in the United States in June 2010. It was adapted from the book Bonjour Farewell: La vérité sur la taupe française du KGB (1997) by Serguei Kostine.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Christian Carion](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-carion)
- **Screenplay:** [Éric Raynaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-raynaud), [Sergeĭ (Sergeĭ Vasilʹevich) Kostin](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-sergei-vasil-evich-kostin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Clint Mansell](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-mansell)
- **Director of Photography:** [Walther van den Ende](https://cinepixo.com/people/walther-van-den-ende)
- **Editor:** [Andrea Sedláčková](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrea-sedlackova)

## Cast

- [Yevgeny Kharlanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeny-kharlanov)
- [Niels Arestrup](https://cinepixo.com/people/niels-arestrup)
- [Oleksiy Gorbunov](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleksiy-gorbunov)
- [Philippe Magnan](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-magnan)
- [Diane Kruger](https://cinepixo.com/people/diane-kruger)
- [Willem Dafoe](https://cinepixo.com/people/willem-dafoe)
- [Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingeborga-dapkunaite)
- [David Soul](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-soul)
- [Vsevolod Shilovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/vsevolod-shilovsky)
- [Fred Ward](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-ward)
- [Emir Kusturica](https://cinepixo.com/people/emir-kusturica)
- [Christian Carion](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-carion)
- [Vladimir Tolstoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-tolstoy)
- [Anton Yakovlev](https://cinepixo.com/people/anton-yakovlev)
- [Dina Korzun](https://cinepixo.com/people/dina-korzun)

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