Synopsis
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.
Awards
Details
- Released
- 21 December 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Director
- Fred Schepisi
- Writers
- Tom Stoppard
- Budget
- $21,800,000
- Box office
- $22,997,992
- Countries
- United States of America, Soviet Union
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Production
- Star Partners III, Studio Trite, MGM-Pathé Communications, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast
Sean Connery
Michelle PfeifferNominated
Roy Scheider
James Fox
John Mahoney
Michael Kitchen
J.T. Walsh
Ken Russell
David Threlfall
Klaus Maria Brandauer