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The Russia House

Sean Connery (Actor), Michelle Pfeiffer (Actor), Fred Schepisi (Director, Producer) Rated:

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A filmmaking tour de force and 'the year's most sophisticated, suspenseful and sexy entertainment (Cosmopolitan), The Russia House stars OscarÂ(r) winner* Sean Connery and OscarÂ(r) nominee** Michelle Pfeiffer as two people caught in a web of spies and politics, whose love could prove fatal to them both. When Katya (Pfeiffer), a beautiful Russian book editor, attempts to send British publisher Barley Blair (Connery) a manuscript written by a noted Soviet scientist, she unwittingly draws them both into a world of international espionage. The manuscript, which contains information that could alter the balance of world power, is intercepted by the West's spy-masters who then send Blair to Russia to gain more information on the mysterious document. But when Blair meets Katya, he finds himself torn between his mission and the woman whose passion for her countryand for Blairknows no bounds.

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Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : s_medR R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4.16 Ounces
Director : Fred Schepisi
Media Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time : 2 hours and 3 minutes
Release date : December 26, 2001
Actors : Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney
Dubbed: : Spanish
Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
Producers : Fred Schepisi, Paul Maslansky
Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
ASIN : B00005R5GM
Writers : John le Carré, Tom Stoppard
Number of discs : 1

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Robert O'Connell

Not What You Might Hope

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2018

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I'm a Le Carre fan, a Sean Connery fan, a great fan of cinema in general, and a sucker for spy stories. This film was a letdown on each count. Where to begin? the way it was lit, with soft flat light everywhere makes it look like a soap. The music would be entirely at home in a corporate elevator. The casting was just weird (Frazier's dad is a CIA guy? Really?) The story, which is actually pretty straight forward, was somehow made ridiculously confusing. The "director" apparently never made it in. I could go on. Whoever is responsible for this should be flogged, then shot, then run over by a bus. After that they should be properly punished.

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T.T.

To love is to betray!

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2015

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Cold war romantic drama. Sean Connery plays British publisher Barley Blair, a Russia expert, who purely by coincidence stumbles upon a Russian nuclear physicist (Claus Maria Brandauer) in a writers dacha. The two men strikes up a conversation about love of ones country and the willingness to betray it. Now Blair is mearly running his mouth, but the Russian scientist is deadly serious and asks his former lover Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer), a Russian bookeditor to assist him in contacting Blair and ask Blair to publish a manuscript, written by the scientist. A manuscript so inflammatory, it might destroy the delicate balance between east and west.

Unfortunately the manuscript is intercepted by British intelligence, who immediately ropes in Blair to help them keep the pots cooking as it were. This is where Blair meets Katya and is madly infatuated. And when the Russians discover the operation, kill the scientist and threaten the lives of Katya and her family, thats where Blair decides to betray England just as the scientist before had betrayed Russia.

The movie - directed by Fred Schepisi - is a tour de force of emotional highs and lows, twists and turns and plots within plots, littered with excellent acting performances by a star studded cast numbering such wonderfull actors like Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney and J. T. Walsh. It is certainly one of the finest cold war dramas ever made and worth watching even if you don't care about that particular genre in generel.

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Lisa D.

Timeless romantic spy thriller

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018

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I love a good post-cold war spy thriller, but somehow managed to miss LeCarre's Russian House when the film version was released (some 28 years ago!). Mixed reviews at the time - glad I didn't read them before watching. Truly as timely today as ever, weaving mystery, political intrigue and dangerous romance. Scripted by Tom Stoppard, the dialogue flashes brilliant in moments - edgy and amusing. The equally gorgeous leads, Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer captivate. Connery gives dimension to "Barley," a rather boorish, womanizing drunk at the start; a compelling anti-hero, unwittingly caught up in a political intrigue over a Russian scientist's secret manuscript on Soviet arms. He falls for the Pfeiffer, who is helping to shepherd the manuscript to the west. The first post cold war feature film actually shot in Russia (in part), Lush cinematography accentuates both the dull and the dramatic visual elements of Russia in the late 1980's.

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pablotee

Great romantic spy thriller

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019

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I am generally not one to watch romantic movies, but this one hit all the right notes for me. Sean Connery is at his irreverent best and Michele Phiefer plays a believable and attractive young Russian single mother. I liked James Fox as the British Intelligence officer, but Roy Scheider and Ken Russell, playing a CIA officer and a British Intelligence analyst respectively, had performances that suffered from over acting. The musical score is great and really contributed to the movie’s atmosphere. Shot in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, and Lisbon before the Berlin Wall fell, so it is an interesting period piece. I highly recommend it.

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sea_nettles

A great film and still relevant

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020

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Yup. The gray men are still keeping alive the arms race - War is a racket. Always was, always will be. Gray creatures in gray suits fund it all, spread the propaganda everywhere, and brainwash the sheople. They crash economies and cultures, and convince us all we need to pack tighter together and have more consolidation in power structures.

Connery is excellent - and Pfeiffer does really well in her role. There's a British MI6 guy that's hilarious - and it's all beautiful and has some decent sound track as well.

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perlbuilder

Boring and generally slow

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019

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Connery and Pfeiffer weren't believable as a couple and frankly the chemistry just wasn't there. Some like this movie and more power to them but it was so-so for me. Here's a novel idea, hire a Russian actress to play a Russian instead of the latest Hollywood hottie. Pfeiffer was not credible and Connery was too old to play her love interest. How I wished he had done The Rock 2 (without Cage of course) instead of this. Sigh but he may have been too old for that too.

One final complaint, the film was beautifully filmed but is in bad need of restoration.

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B.K. Wunder

Sean Connery and a radiant Michelle Pfeiffer

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2019

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Although this movie is a little slow by current thriller standards, Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer infuse it with an inner glow and intensity. Roy Scheider overacts and delivers four-letter-word clunkers that hurt the movie, but a very classy and talented British case ultimately outweigh Scheider's crudeness. Sean Connery is as clever and endearing as ever. Michelle Pfeiffer is an absolute revelation, one of the all-time great beauties of the silver screen. When the camera caresses Pfeiffer's eyes, the effect is magic.

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Arizona EAGLEtarian

A little bit of suspense and a little bit of eros, in a wonderful story

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2019

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My first exposure to seemingly genuine Russian culture and I appreciated it tremendously. There was even "product placement" with the repetitious appearance of a particular trucking brand name (which brand meant nothing to me).

This movie held my attention because I had been a fan of The Americans. And because of the tremendous performances by Connery and Pfeiffer. And because even the story had just enough eros, but not too much.

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cora

Spy Thriller Meets Romance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2018

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Based on John le Carré's novel from 1989, the film came out in 1990 and has the distinction of being one of the first Western productions to be filmed on location in the then Soviet Union. This alone makes the film worth watching. For anybody who remembers travelling there during those heady few years of the Gorbachev administration when the country was starting to open up, this will bring back many memories.

Though large parts of the film are set in Russia, the title refers to a department within the British Secret Service that dealt with espionage in the USSR. The story is a spy thriller with a heavy element of romance thrown in, and this works very well. Sean Connery plays a hard drinking publisher with contacts in the USSR who is recruited by MI6 to follow up a lead in Moscow, the lovely Michelle Pfeiffer is one of his Russian contacts, Klaus Maria Brandauer (who previously appeared opposite Connery as the villain Largo in Never Say Never Again) is the man who holds the information MI6 is trying to get its hands on. Or is he a KGB plant? John Mahoney, Roy Scheider and James Fox appear in supporting roles.

The film is a slow stylish affair, don't expect to see a lot of exciting action here. The cast, on the other hand, is rather exciting and all deliver solid perfomances. It's a bit a blast from the past and will probably be best enjoyed by those who remember the dying days of the Cold War when Soviet military secrets were still the holy grail of espionage and beautiful Russian women married Westerners. Sometimes for love, oftentimes as a ticket to the West.

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R. Chapman

Dated and Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2019

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I'm a big John Le Carre fan but I found this quite disappointing, like most of the Hollywood Le Carre adaptations. The only thing of interest for me was the documentary aspect of it being filmed in Russia at the tail end of the Cold War.
Better stick with the classic BBC adaptations of Tinker Tailor..., Smiley's People and A Perfect Spy which still stand up remarkably well.
Connery and Pfeiffer aren't really Le Carre people, but I thoroughly enjoyed Ken Russell's turn. He's as eccentric as Beryl Reid and fits right in to this world.
Don't get me started on the re-makes. Counterfiet pretending to be the real McCoy. Gary Oldman will never in a million years be George Smiley and Kathy Burke isn't Beryl Reid. It was a three card trick that fooled some.
The same goes for the Night Manager. Grossly over-rated tosh,
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and A Deadly Affair still stand up remarkably well.
As for the Little Drummer Girl (both versions) words fail me...

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OldFrank

Nice film, shame about the ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2015

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I really enjoyed this.

I think it's one of Michelle Pfeiffer's best films and Sean Connery is Sean Connery, but pretty much perfect in this role. I thought Roy Scheider's character came perilously close to cartoonish on occasion - more the script's fault than the actor's - but, on the whole, I thought everyone pretty good, even - or especially - Ken Russell (never before seen him in anything but his own stuff). Lisbon, Moscow and St Petersburg had good supporting roles, too.

There's a paradox here, though. On the one hand, it's great to watch a film with a real plot and script and I was enthralled as the story worked itself out - unlike so many modern films where it seems to have been decided that cost can be cut by dispensing with proper writers. With John Le Carre and Tom Stoppard on board this lot shouldn't have been able to go wrong, but - POSSIBLE SPOILER COMING UP - I really don't understand the ending and I'm pretty sure it isn't my fault. How the hell can Barley be said to have fulfilled his promise to Dante? How can handing over the 'shopping list' possibly be the equivalent of publishing Dante's book? I suppose I'll have to read Le Carre's book where I hope the ending will make more sense.

Loved the film but can't get past that ending, so I have to knock off one star.

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The Russian House. Very realistic film of the USSR

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2014

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Got this DVD after reading the book. I think the film gives a first rate impression of a citizen's drab everyday life in Russia in the 60's/70's that concurs exactly with my own visits to Poland and Czechoslovakia. Can't comment much on the spycraft issues and Russian missile technology which is at the centre of the story, not being in the business, The only "secret" learned was that none of their stuiff really worked except to scare the US just enough to keep its defence industry in business. As the Russians later got to the moon, they couldn't really be that bad at making rockets.

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Alan Bateman

Connery in a good Le Carre thriller. Who needs more?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2018

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Perhaps inevitably a bit dated but still a good thriller easily understood and well-acted by all. Gripping, amusing and stylish in parts - and much simpler to grasp than the current 'Little Drummer Girl' on BBC television! Connery always good to watch, hear and appreciate.

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