
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.
Production
Star Partners III · Studio Trite · MGM-Pathé Communications · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast & Characters

Sean Connery
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair

Michelle Pfeiffer
Katya Orlova

Roy Scheider
Russell

James Fox
Ned

John Mahoney
Brady

Michael Kitchen
Clive

J.T. Walsh
Colonel Quinn

Ken Russell
Walter

David Threlfall
Wicklow

Klaus Maria Brandauer
Dante

Mac McDonald
Bob

Nicholas Woodeson
Niki Landau
Directors & Crew
Paul Maslansky
Producer
Fred Schepisi
Director
Tom Stoppard
Screenplay
Fred Schepisi
Producer
Leonid Vereshchagin
Producer
Nikita Mikhalkov
Producer
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