Drama ·Thriller ·Romance · United States of America · 1990 · 1h 58m

The Russia House

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Director
Fred Schepisi
Cast
Sean Connery as Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya Orlova Roy Scheider as Russell James Fox as Ned John Mahoney as Brady Michael Kitchen as Clive
Crew
Ian Baker — Director of Photography Beth Jochem Besterveld — Editor Peter Honess — Editor Jerry Goldsmith — Original Music Composer Tom Stoppard — Screenplay John le Carré — Novel
Tagline

Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.

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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Mood & Themes
central intelligence agency (cia)based on novel or booksecret missionlisbon, portugalex-loversoviet unionnuclear scientistmoscow, russia
Key Collaborators
Fred Schepisi Director Ian Baker Director of Photography Beth Jochem Besterveld Editor Peter Honess Editor Jerry Goldsmith Original Music Composer Tom Stoppard Screenplay John le Carré Novel Paul Maslansky Producer Fred Schepisi Producer Leonid Vereshchagin Producer Nikita Mikhalkov Producer
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