The Russia House (1990)

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.
Fred Schepisi
Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Michael Kitchen, J. T. Walsh, Ken Russell, David Threlfall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Nicholas Woodeson, Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice, Colin Stinton, Charlotte Cornwell, David Ryall, Denys Hawthorne, Kate Lock, Simon Templeman, Jason Salkey, Nikolay Dik, Mac McDonald, George Roth, Peter Marinker, Ellen Hurst, Peter Knupffer, Nikolai Pastukhov, Eric Anzumonyln, Daniel Woźniak, Giorgi Anjaparidze, Vladek Nikiforov, Christopher Lawford, Mark LaMura, Blu Mankuma, Tuck Milligan, Jay Benedict, David Timson, Yelena Stroyeva, Fyodor Smirnov, Pavel Sirotin, Paul Jutkevitch, David Henry, Martin Wenner, Paul Rattee, Gina Nikiforov, Raisa Ryazanova, Craig Crosbie, Keith Edwards, Michael Fitzpatrick, Rob Freeman, Gennady Venov, Sasha Yatsko, Vladimir Zunetov, Jack Raymond, Alexei Jawdokimov, Constantine Gregory, Sergey Reusenko, Yegueshe Tsturvan, Jonathan Reason, Aleksandr Yatsko, Vladimir Kuznetsov
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