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

The Russia House (1990)

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Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.

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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Cast & Crew

Director
Fred Schepisi
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    Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair Sean Connery
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    Katya Orlova Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Profile picture of Roy Scheider
    Russell Roy Scheider
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    Ned James Fox
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    Brady John Mahoney
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    Clive Michael Kitchen
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    Colonel Quinn J. T. Walsh
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    Walter Ken Russell

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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