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CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD

Farewell

CHRISTIAN CARION
France, 2009, 113 minutes, Color, film's website

Christian Carion's previous film, the Oscar®-nominated Joyeux Noel, took the director into French, English, and German archives to research the story of the "Christmas Truce" during WWI. For Farewell, Carion added a trip inside Russia’s private past for the story of how an unassuming French engineer (Pierre Froment) helped bring on perestroika and end the Cold War. Set and filmed largely in Moscow during the tense days of the Reagan administration, Farewell follows disaffected KGB officer Sergei Gregoriev (Emir Kusturica), who decides he can make a better world for his son by destroying the corrupt Soviet system. In an environment where there is a "babushka behind every curtain" and people "lie in lies," the viewer is never entirely sure who is playing who, and for what reason. And even though the events are long past, when Gregoriev turns over plans for Air Force One, the Space Shuttle, and much more, the goosebumps appear. —Dave Nuttycombe

In French, English, and Russian with English subtitles

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