The Russia House (film)
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| Directed by | Fred Schepisi |
| Produced by | Paul Maslansky Neil Canton Fred Schepisi |
| Screenplay by | Tom Stoppard |
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The Russia House by John le Carré |
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| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Ian Baker |
| Edited by | Beth Jochem Besterveld Peter Honess |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $22,998,000 (USA) |
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| Film score by Jerry Goldsmith | |
| Released | 11 December 1990 |
| Recorded | 1990 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 61:34 |
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The Russia House is a 1990 American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay based on John le Carré's novel of the same name. The film stars Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, and Klaus Maria Brandauer.
It was filmed on location in the Soviet Union, only the second American motion picture (the first being the 1988 film Red Heat) to do so before its dissolution in 1991.
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott-Blair (Sean Connery), the head of a British publishing firm, is on a business trip to Moscow. He attends a writers' retreat near Peredelkino where he speaks of an end to tensions with the West. Attentively listening is a mysterious man called "Dante" (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Dante later demands from Barley a promise to do the right thing if the opportunity arises.
A few months later, unable to locate Barley at a trade show, a beautiful young Soviet woman named Katya Orlova (Michelle Pfeiffer) asks publisher Nicky Landau (Nicholas Woodeson) to give Barley an important manuscript in her possession. Landau sneaks a look at the manuscript and delivers it to British government authorities. The manuscript is a document detailing the Soviet Union's capability for waging nuclear war. An investigation reveals "Dante" is in fact renowned Soviet physicist Yakov Saveleyev and the author of the manuscript.
British intelligence officers track Barley to his holiday flat in Lisbon, Portugal and interrogate him as to how he knows Katya. They realize he is as much in the dark as they are. MI6 realizes that the manuscript is also of vital importance to the American CIA, with both agencies wanting Barley to work on their behalf. British agent Ned (James Fox) then gives Barley some fundamental training as a spy.
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