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.
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The Russia House
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Movie · Drama · Thriller · R
1990 · 1h 58m · ★ 30% (20K)
Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider
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.
Director
Fred Schepisi
Production
Star Partners III, Studio Trite, MGM-Pathé Communications, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Michael Kitchen, J.T. Walsh, Ken Russell, David Threlfall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Mac McDonald, Nicholas Woodeson, Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice, Colin Stinton, Denys Hawthorne, George Roth, Peter Marinker, Ellen Hurst, Peter Knupffer