The Russia House

  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • Romance
12/21/1990
118
R

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.

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$22,997,992
Budget:
$21,800,000

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  • Wuchak

    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) is sent a mysterious manuscript via a beautiful Russian editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer), but its intercepted by British intelligence and Barley is coerced into going to Moscow & Leningrad to meet with Katya and the writer of the documents (Klaus Maria Brandauer), which contain technical data that calls into question the quality of the Soviet defense weaponry. Meanwhile both British and American agents (Roy Scheider, James Fox, et al.) surveil Barleys activities.

    Based on John le Carre's novel, "The Russia House" (1990) is a spy dr...

    December 16, 2020

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