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The Russia House

The Russia House

6.1/ 10

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1990

Release Year

118 min

Runtime

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.

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Keywords

central intelligence agency (cia)
based on novel or book
secret mission
lisbon, portugal
ex-lover
soviet union
nuclear scientist
moscow, russia

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Reviews(2)

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Wuchak

Wuchak

December 16, 2020

6
6/10

_**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

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

December 8, 2024

6
6/10

Sean Connery at least looks like he's having some fun in this otherwise rather dry adaptation of the John Le Carré tale of Cold War espionage. He's "Barley", a publisher who is recruited by MI5 to investigate a secret document sent from the USSR purporting to itemise their nuclear arsenal. Needless

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