Date: Mon 7th Feb 2011
Time: From 6:45pm
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Details:
Association: Aurora Public Library
Contact: Jane Taylor
Phone: (905) 726-2608
Email: jane.taylor4@sympatico.ca This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Website: afc.library.aurora.on.ca
Screens: 18:45:00, Cineplex
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Fred Ward, Willem Dafoe
In 1981, Colonel Grigoriev of the KGB (real name - Vladimir Vetrov), disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev, decides he is going to change the world?. Discreetly, he makes contact with a French engineer working for Thomson in Moscow and little by little passes on documents to him containing information which would constitute the most important Cold War espionage operation known to date. During a period of two years, French President, François Mitterrand, was to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow, to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename "Farewell". Then master of the White House, Ronald Reagan, set aside his reluctance to work with a French Socialist to put this unhoped-for information from the very heart of the KGB to use. Farewell would in fact decapitate the network which enabled the KGB to gain in-depth knowledge of scientific, industrial and military research in the West.