The Russia House (1990)
- Starring:
- Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, (more)
- Director(s):
- Fred Schepisi
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Russia House
"Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems that the CIA has through a book show intermediary received a package from a Russian book editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer) containing amazingly detailed notebooks written by a cynical Russian physicist named "Dante" (Klaus-Maria Brandauer). The notebooks show that Russia's nuclear threat is a joke: Russian rockets "suck instead of blow...and can't hit Nevada on a clear day," in the acerbic words of CIA Agent Russell Sheridan (Roy Scheider). But why is Dante sending the notebooks to Blair? How shall the Western world respond to what could be the end of the nuclear arms race? Blair gets drafted by a British Secret Service agent (James Fox) to go to the new Russia to meet Katya. He must see whether the new Russia is still immersed in the old Cold War and whether the notebooks are genuine or another deadly chapter in the war of the spies. ~ Nick Sambides, Jr., Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 123 mins
Complete Cast of The Russia House
- Sean Connery - Barley Blair
- Roy Scheider - Russell
- John Mahoney - Brady
- Michael Kitchen - Clive
- J.T. Walsh - Quinn
- Peter Mariner - US Scientist
- Georgi Andzhaparidze - Yuri
- Jay Benedict - Spikey
- Charlotte Cornwell - Charlotte
- Keith Edwards - Hoover
- Rob Freeman - Hoover
- David Ryall - Colonial Type
- Sergei Reusenko - KGB Man
- Margot Pinvidic - Woman Interpreter
- Nikolai Nikitin - Leningrad Police Officer
- Vladimir Zunetov - Dan
- Daniel Wozniak - Zapadny
- Martin Wenner - Whitehall - Scientist
- Yegueshe Tsturvan - Flute Player
- Simon Templeman - Whitehall - Psychoanalyst
- Colin Stinton - Henziger
- Pavel Sirotin - Watcher
- Jason Salkey - Johnny
- Tuck Milligan - Stanley
- Mac McDonald - Bob
- Kate Lock - Jacky
- Mark LaMura - Todd
- Constantine Gregory - KGB Interviewer
- David Henry - Minister, Whitehall
- Alexei Jawdokimov - Arkady
- Michelle Pfeiffer - Katya
- James Fox - Ned
- Klaus Maria Brandauer - Dante
- Ken Russell - Walter
- David Threlfall - Wicklow
- Jack Raymond - Lev
- Eric Anzumonyin - Nasayan
- Martin Clunes - Brock
- Craig Crosbie - Technician
- Michael Fitzpatrick - Hoover
- Raisa Ryazanova - Russian Guest
- George Roth - Cy
- Paul Rattee - Whitehall - Army Officer
- Nikolai Pastukhov - Uncle Matvey
- Vladek Nikiforov - Tout
- Sasha Yatsko - Russian Writer
- Nicholas Woodeson - Niki Landau
- Gennady Venov - Katya's Father
- David Timson - George
- Elena Stroyeva - Anastasia
- Fyodor Smirnov - Watcher
- Vladimir Sidirov - Leningrad Police Officer
- Gina Nikiforov - Russian Guest
- Ian McNeice - Merrydew
- Blu Mankuma - Merv
- Christopher Lawford - Larry
- Peter Knupffer - Sergey
- Denys Hawthorne - Paddy
- Ellen Hurst - Anna
- Paul Jutkevich - Mischa
- Director(s):
- Fred Schepisi
- Writer(s):
- John Le Carré, Tom Stoppard
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Questionable for Children, Profanity)
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