The Russia House is an American spy drama, based on the novel of the same name by John le Carré. It was directed by Fred Schepisi, and starred Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, with Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, and Klaus Maria Brandauer in supporting roles. It was filmed on location in the Soviet Union, only the second American motion picture to do so before the dissolution of the socialist state . Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair , the head of a British publishing firm, is on a business trip to Moscow. He attends a writers' retreat where he speaks of an inevitable New World... Order on its way and an end to tension with the West. Attentively listening is a man called Dante , who wants to be convinced that Barley means what he says. It transpires that Dante has secretly written a book about the Soviet Union's true nuclear missile capabilities. A few months later, unable to locate Barley at a sales fair, a Russian woman named Katya Orlova asks another publishing company's representative, Niki Landau , to pass along a very important manuscript.
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| Release date: | 1990 |
| Directed by: | Fred Schepisi |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Neil Canton |
| Editor: | Peter Honess |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Screenplay by: | John le Carré |
| Adapted from: | The Russia House |
| Genre: | Thriller |