The Russia House
Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.
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12/21/1990Runtime
118 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$21,800,000Revenue
$22,997,992Homepage
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A slow-burn Cold War romance where a reluctant agent navigates between duty and desire, caught between intelligence agencies and personal longing. The film luxuriates in moral ambiguity and the ache of impossible choices.
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