Some secrets have the power to change the course of history.
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Release Date
September 23, 2009
Popularity
1
Director
Christian Carion
Writer
Christian Carion
Writer
Eric Raynaud
Producer
Philip Boëffard
Producer
Bertrand Faivre
Where to Watch
Cast
Guillaume Canet
Pierre Froment
Emir Kusturica
Sergei Grigoriev
Alexandra Maria Lara
Jessica Froment
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Natasha
Dina Korzun
Alina
Evgeniy Kharlanov
Igor
Niels Arestrup
Vallier
Willem Dafoe
Feeney
Fred Ward
Ronald Reagan
Philippe Magnan
François Mitterrand
David Soul
Hutton
Christian Sandström
FBI Agent
Diane Kruger
Jogging spy
Christian Carion
Mitterrand advisor
Gary Lewis
Scottish chemist
Benno Fürmann
Riko Eklundh
Agent du FBI 1
Svetlana Kuzmina
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Reviews
Andres Gomez
The performances are really good and the staging is quite believable and impressive. The plot is really well done ... the only problem is that it is really far from the actual facts.
