• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1990-12-21
  • Runtime118 minutes
  • TaglineTheir love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.
  • Revenue22,997,992$
  • GenreDrama, Thriller, Romance
  • Production
    CompaniesPathé Entertainment, Star Partners III Ltd., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Studio Trite
  • Budget21,800,000$

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

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

Peter Marinker

Nikolai Pastukhov

Jason Salkey

Christopher Lawford

Mark LaMura

Blu Mankuma

Tuck Milligan

Jay Benedict

Fyodor Smirnov

Pavel Sirotin

Martin Wenner

Simon Templeman

Raisa Ryazanova

Kate Lock

Charlotte Cornwell

Craig Crosbie

Rob Freeman

Aleksandr Yatsko

David Ryall

Nikolay Dik

Alexei Jawdokimov

Constantine Gregory

Tina Simmons

Vladimir Sidorov