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The Russia House

Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.

6.1(342)19901h 58m4

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$21.8M
Box office
$23M
Language
English
  • central intelligence agency (cia)
  • based on novel or book
  • secret mission
  • lisbon, portugal
  • ex-lover
  • soviet union
  • nuclear scientist
  • moscow, russia

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Produced in

United States of America, Soviet Union

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR21 Dec 1990
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical22 Feb 1991
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical11 Apr 1991
  • CanadaCA

    • Physical26 Dec 2001
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical7 Mar 1991
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical4 Apr 1991
  • BrazilBR

    • TheatricalL13 Mar 1991
    • Theatrical3 Jan 1992
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Physical15+1 Jun 1993
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical26 Apr 1991
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical10 May 1991
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP20 Mar 1991
    • PhysicalDVD24 Apr 2002
    • PhysicalBlu-Ray21 Aug 2012
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1213 Mar 1991

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The Russia House was released on 21 December 1990.

Audience reviews

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  • W

    Wuchak

    12/16/2020

    6/10

    _**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 it’s intercepted by British intelligence and Barley is coerced into going to Moscow & Leningrad to meet with Katya and …

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    12/8/2024

    6/10

    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 this being real, but th…

  • K

    kevin2019

    9/17/2026

    "The Russia House" amply illustrates that the global bestselling author John le Carre wasn't just marvellous at creating intriguing central ideas which would no doubt send both the American and British Security Services into a salivating frenzy (as it does here), but he was also perfectly capable of developing such terrific ideas into convincing novels. This film is based upon his 1989 novel of the same name and it s…

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