The Russia House (1990)

Directors

Fred Schepisi

Cast

Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, J. T. Walsh, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Mac McDonald, Nicholas Woodeson, Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice, Colin Stinton, Denys Hawthorne, Nikolai Pastukhov, Jason Salkey, Christopher Lawford, Blu Mankuma, Tuck Milligan, Jay Benedict, David Henry, Paul Rattee, Simon Templeman, Raisa Ryazanova, Charlotte Cornwell, Keith Edwards, Michael Fitzpatrick, Rob Freeman, Jack Raymond, David Ryall, Constantine Gregory

The story

Bartholomew "Barley" Scott-Blair, head of a British publishing firm, arrives in Moscow on business in autumn 1987, at the height of perestroika. At a writers' retreat near Peredelkino, he speaks of an end to tensions with the West, heard by the mysterious Dante, who demands that Barley promise to do the right thing if the opportunity arises. A few months later, unable to locate Barley at a trade show, a young Soviet named Katya Orlova asks publisher Nicky Landau to give Barley a manuscript.

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