
Feature film — 1990
The Russia House (1990)
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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A high-signal pick with 344 votes.
Star Partners III / Studio Trite / MGM-Pathé Communications / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Director: Fred Schepisi
On screen
Cast & crew

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
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