Story Line
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.
“Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.”
Top Cast
Sean Connery
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
Michelle Pfeiffer
Katya Orlova
Roy Scheider
Russell
James Fox
Ned
John Mahoney
Brady
Michael Kitchen
Clive
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Rating
6.1/ 10
Release Date
1990-12-21
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
DramaThrillerRomance
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User Reviews (2)
Wuchak
6/10
•12/16/2020_**Artistic production with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, but uninteresting spy story**_
A few years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a boozy English publisher named Barley (Sean Connery) is sent a mysterious manuscript via a beautiful R...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•12/8/2024Sean Connery at least looks like he's having some fun in this otherwise rather dry adaptation of the John Le Carré tale of Cold War espionage. He's "Barley", a publisher who is recruited by MI5 to investigate a secret document sent from the USSR purp...