The Russia House

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The Russia House (1990)

R 21/12/1990 (US) Drama, Thriller, Romance 1h 58m

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Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.

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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.

Fred Schepisi

Director
John le Carré

Novel
Tom Stoppard

Screenplay

Hoofdrolspelers

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
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Geschreven door Wuchak op 16 december 2020

Artistic production with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, but uninteresting spy story

A few years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a boozy English publisher named Barley (Sean Connery) is sent a mysterious manuscript via a beautiful Russian editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer), but it’s intercepted by British intelligence and Barley is coerced into going to Moscow & Leningrad to meet with Katya and the writer of the documents (Klaus Maria Brandauer), which contain technical data that calls into question the quality of the Soviet defense weaponry. Meanwhile both British and Ame... lees de rest.

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