Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
- 6.1
- 1990
- Released
- 1h 58m
Sean Connery
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
Michelle Pfeiffer
Katya Orlova
Roy Scheider
Russell
James Fox
Ned
John Mahoney
Brady
Michael Kitchen
Clive
J. T. Walsh
Colonel Quinn
David Threlfall
Wicklow
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Dante
Mac McDonald
Bob
Nicholas Woodeson
Niki Landau
Martin Clunes
Brock
Ian McNeice
Merrydew
Colin Stinton
Henziger
Denys Hawthorne
Paddy
George Roth
Cy
Peter Marinker
U.S. ScientistEllen Hurst
AnnaPeter Knupffer
Sergey
Nikolai Pastukhov
Uncle Matvey
Jason Salkey
JohnnyEric Anzumonyln
NasayanDaniel Woźniak
ZapadnyGiorgi Anjaparidze
YuriVladek Nikiforov
Tout
Christopher Lawford
Larry
Mark LaMura
Todd
Blu Mankuma
Merv
Tuck Milligan
Stanley
Jay Benedict
SpikeyDavid Timson
GeorgeYelena Stroyeva
Anastasia
Fyodor Smirnov
Watcher
Pavel Sirotin
WatcherPaul Jutkevitch
MishaDavid Henry
Jr. Minister - Whitehall
Martin Wenner
Scientist - WhitehallPaul Rattee
Army Officer - Whitehall
Simon Templeman
Psychoanalyst - WhitehallGina Nikiforov
Russian Guest
Raisa Ryazanova
Russian Guest
Kate Lock
Jacky
Charlotte Cornwell
Charlotte
Craig Crosbie
TechnicianKeith Edwards
HooverMichael Fitzpatrick
Hoover
Rob Freeman
HooverGennady Venov
Katya's Father
Aleksandr Yatsko
Russian WriterVladimir Zunetov
DanJack Raymond
Lev
David Ryall
Colonial Type
Nikolay Dik
major of KGB
Alexei Jawdokimov
Arkady
Constantine Gregory
KGB InterviewerSergey Reusenko
KGB ManYegueshe Tsturvan
Flute Player
Jonty Reason
Delegate (uncredited)
Vladimir Kuznetsov
company representative (uncredited)
Vladimir Sidorov
an officer of the Leningrad police
Released
en
$21,800,000.00
$22,997,992.00
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- #ex-lover
- #soviet union
- #nuclear scientist
- #moscow, russia
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Sean Connery at least looks like he's having some fun in this otherwise rather dry adaptation of the John Le Carré tale of Cold War espionage. He's "Barley", a publisher who is recruited by MI5 to investigate a secret document sent from the USSR purporting to itemise their nuclear arsenal. Needless to say both the British and their CIA counterparts are wetting themselves at the very thought of thi
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