“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.
Fred Schepisi
Paul Maslansky
Fred Schepisi
Nikita Mikhalkov
Tom Stoppard
Ian Baker
Jerry Goldsmith
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
Ken Russell
Walter
David Threlfall
Wicklow
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Dante
Mac McDonald
Bob
Nicholas Woodeson
Niki Landau
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Wuchak
_**Artistic production with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, but uninteresting spy story**_ A few years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a boozy English publisher named Barley (Sean Connery) is sent a mysterious manuscript via a beautiful Russian editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer), but...
CinemaSerf
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 ...
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