The Russia House (film)

The Russia House is a 1990 American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay based on John le Carrs novel of the same name. The film stars Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, and Klaus Maria Brandauer.

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 inevitable New World Order and an end to tensions with the West. Attentively listening is a man called Dante Goethe in the novel Klaus Maria Brandauer, who wants to be convinced that Barley means what he says. It transpires that Dante is in fact a renowned physicist who has secretly written a manuscript detailing the Soviet Unions nuclear missile capabilities.A few months later, unable to locate Barley at a sales fair, a beautiful young Soviet woman named Katya Orlova Michelle Pfeiffer asks another publishing companys representative, Niki Landau Nicholas Woodeson, to pass along a very important manuscript. Niki sneaks a look at the manuscript and delivers it to British government authorities. ........

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