The Russia House (1990)

Directed by

Fred Schepisi

Genre

drama film, romance film, spy film, political thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 332 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British publisher is drawn into Cold War espionage when he is asked to pass along a manuscript from a Russian woman. He falls for her and gets entangled in the dangerous games of intelligence agencies on both sides.

slow-burntensemelancholicromanticatmosphericcerebralintimateuncertain

What happens

The Russia House is a 1990 American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney and Klaus Maria Brandauer. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay based on John le Carré's 1989 novel of the same name. It was the first US motion picture to be shot substantially on location in the Soviet Union. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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