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The Russia House(1990)6.1
The Russia House1990-12-21
•Drama, Thriller, Romance
•118 minutes
Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.
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
Sean Connery
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
Michelle Pfeiffer
Katya Orlova
Roy Scheider
Russell
James Fox
Ned
John Mahoney
Brady
Michael Kitchen
Clive
J. T. Walsh
Colonel Quinn
Ken Russell
Walter
David Threlfall
Wicklow
Reviews2
A review by Wuchak
6.0
Written by Wuchak on 4 / Dec / 2020
_**Artistic production with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, but uninteresting spy story**_
A few years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a boozy English publisher named Barley (Sean Connery)...
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Status
Released
Budget
$21,800,000
Revenue
$22,997,992
Original Language
English
Production Companies
- Pathé Entertainment - US
- Star Partners III Ltd.
Production Countries
- Soviet Union
- United States of America
Keywords
central intelligence agency (cia)
based on novel or book
secret mission
lisbon, portugal
ex-lover
soviet union
nuclear scientist
moscow, russia