The Russia House (1990)
Ratings:
6.1 (TMDb)
Released:
1990-12-21
Runtime:
1h 58m
Genres:
Drama, Thriller, Romance
Countries:
United States of America, Soviet Union
Director:
Fred Schepisi
Actors:
Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Michael Kitchen, J.T. Walsh, Ken Russell
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.