The Russia House
“Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.”
Director: Fred Schepisi
Producer: Paul Maslansky, Fred Schepisi, Leonid Vereshchagin
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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Reviews
6.0Wuchak
December 16, 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…
6.0CinemaSerf
December 8, 2024
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 to say both the Brit…
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kevin2019
September 17, 2026
"The Russia House" amply illustrates that the global bestselling author John le Carre wasn't just marvellous at creating intriguing central ideas which would no doubt send both the American and British Security Services into a salivating frenzy (as it does here), but he was also perfectly capable of developing such ter…