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The Russia House

Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.

1990 · R · 1h 58m

Directed by Fred Schepisi

6.1

TMDB audience score
345 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Dante

  • Mac McDonald
    Bob

  • Nicholas Woodeson
    Niki Landau

  • Martin Clunes
    Brock

  • Ian McNeice
    Merrydew

  • Colin Stinton
    Henziger

  • Denys Hawthorne
    Paddy

  • George Roth
    Cy

  • Peter Marinker
    U.S. Scientist