The Russia House (1990)
Drama · Thriller · Romance
Overview
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.
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
- J.T. Walsh as Colonel Quinn
- Ken Russell as Walter
- David Threlfall as Wicklow
- Klaus Maria Brandauer as Dante