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The Russia House (1990)

R12/21/1990Drama, Thriller, Romance1h 58m
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Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.

Overview

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Sean Connery

    Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair

  2. Cast 1

    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Katya Orlova

  3. Cast 1

    Roy Scheider

    Russell

  4. Cast 1

    James Fox

    Ned

  5. Cast 1

    John Mahoney

    Brady

  6. Cast 1

    Michael Kitchen

    Clive

  7. Cast 1

    J. T. Walsh

    Colonel Quinn

  8. Cast 1

    Ken Russell

    Walter

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    David Threlfall

    Wicklow

Sean Connery at least looks like he's having some fun in this otherwise rather dry adaptation of the John Le Carré tale of Cold War espionage. He's "Barley", a publisher who is recruited by MI5 to investigate a secret document sent from the USSR purporting to itemise their nuclear arsenal. Needless to say both the British and their CIA counterparts are wetting themselves at the very thought of this being real, but that needs to be verified - and that's where they recruit "Barley". He travels to Moscow to meet the author, codenamed "Dante" (Klaus Maria Brandauer) and it's whilst there he become...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$21,800,000.00

Revenue $22,997,992.00

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