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Dominican Rep. The Russia House
- Original title
- The Russia House
- Year
- 1990
- Running time
- 123 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Tom Stoppard. Novel: John Le Carré
- Cast
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Michelle Pfeiffer
Sean Connery
James Fox
John Mahoney
Roy Scheider
Klaus Maria Brandauer
David Threlfall
Ken Russell
J.T. Walsh
Michael Kitchen
Nicholas Woodeson
Ian McNeice- Denys Hawthorne
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery | Spy Film. Cold War
- Movie Groups
- John le Carré Adaptations
- Synopsis
- "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.
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- Awards
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1990: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Actress Drama (Michelle Pfeiffer)1991: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection1990: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 2 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"The greatest compliment one can pay The Russia House is to say that it's the kind of spy movie that's making spy movies obsolete."
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"John le Carre's glasnost-era espionage novel has been turned into intelligent adult entertainment, but somber tone, utter lack of action and sex, and complexity of plot tilts this mainly to upscale audience"
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"A virtually perfect adapatation of a virtually perfect novel"
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