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.
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Crew
DirectorFred Schepisi
WriterTom Stoppard
Cast
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
Martin Clunes
Brock
Ian McNeice
Merrydew
Colin Stinton
Henziger
Denys Hawthorne
Paddy
George Roth
Cy
Peter Marinker
U.S. Scientist
Ellen Hurst
Anna
Peter Knupffer
Sergey
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Keywords
central intelligence agency (cia)based on novel or booksecret missionlisbon, portugalex-loversoviet unionnuclear scientistmoscow, russia
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Budget
$22M
Revenue
$23M
TMDb Votes
328
Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 3, 2026