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About
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.
Theatrical
Dec 21, 1990
Box Office
$23.0M
Budget
$21.8M
Return
1.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
Dec 26, 2001
Theaters
1
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Star Partners III, Studio Trite, MGM-Pathé Communications, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Full credits →S
Sean Connery
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
M
Michelle Pfeiffer
Katya Orlova
R
Roy Scheider
Russell
J
James Fox
Ned
J
John Mahoney
Brady
M
Michael Kitchen
Clive
J
J.T. Walsh
Colonel Quinn
K
Ken Russell
Walter
D
David Threlfall
Wicklow
K
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Dante
M
Mac McDonald
Bob
N
Nicholas Woodeson
Niki Landau
M
Martin Clunes
Brock
I
Ian McNeice
Merrydew
C
Colin Stinton
Henziger
D
Denys Hawthorne
Paddy
G
George Roth
Cy
P
Peter Marinker
U.S. Scientist
N
Nikolai Pastukhov
Uncle Matvey
J
Jason Salkey
Johnny
