Overview
Plot
A Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature unexpectedly joins British intelligence and is sent to investigate Dante, a dissident scientist in a Soviet Union loosening under new open-minded policies.
- Directors
- Fred Schepisi
- Cast
- Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Michael Kitchen, J.T. Walsh, Ken Russell, David Threlfall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Mac McDonald, Nicholas Woodeson, Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice, Colin Stinton, Denys Hawthorne, George Roth, Peter Marinker, Ellen Hurst, Peter Knupffer
- Country
- United States of America, Soviet Union
- Genre
- Drama, Thriller, Romance
- Release date
- 1990-12-21
- Studios
- Star Partners III, Studio Trite, MGM-Pathé Communications, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Barley Scott Blair, an editor of Russian literature based in Lisbon, finds himself working for British intelligence. He is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union as it crumbles under new open-minded policies.
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