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Screenplay Tom Stoppard
Director Fred Schepisi

The Russia House

Tagline: Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.

Release Date: 1990-12-21

Duration: 118 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Michelle Pfeiffer
    Katya Orlova
  • Roy Scheider
    Russell
  • Sean Connery
    Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
  • James Fox
    Ned
  • David Threlfall
    Wicklow
  • Ian McNeice
    Merrydew
  • Blu Mankuma
    Merv
  • J.T. Walsh
    Colonel Quinn
  • Michael Kitchen
    Clive
  • John Mahoney
    Brady