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The Russia House
“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.
Directed by Fred Schepisi
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Status
Released
Released
December 21, 1990
Runtime
1h 58m
Language
English, Russian
Budget → Revenue
$21.8M → $23M
Top 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
Ellen Hurst
Anna
Peter Knupffer
Sergey
