Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1990-12-21) |
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| Awards: | 5 nominations |
| BoxOffice: | $22,997,992 |
| Screen: | John le Carré, Tom Stoppard |
| Productions: | Pathé Entertainment, Star Partners III Ltd., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Studio Trite |
| Production Countries: | Soviet Union, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Pусский |
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- 738: Sean Connery - Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
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- 6355: Roy Scheider - Russell
- 1292: James Fox - Ned
- 4251: John Mahoney - Brady
- 10648: Michael Kitchen - Clive
- 22131: J.T. Walsh - Colonel Quinn
Crews
- 33096: Paul Maslansky - Producer - Production
- 64061: Fred Schepisi - Director - Directing
- 20422: John le Carré - Novel - Writing
- 372: Tom Stoppard - Screenplay - Writing
- 64061: Fred Schepisi - Producer - Production
- 1760: Jerry Goldsmith - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 27099: Ian Baker - Director of Photography - Camera
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_**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 (Michell ....
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