This movie was one of the first U.S. films to be shot largely on location in the Soviet Union and is based on the John le Carre novel by the same name. In the movie, a small time publisher named Barley Blair played by Sean Connery (First Knight, Finding Forrester, Entrapment, The Rock, many James Bond movies-007 type, etc) receives a package of notebooks purported to contain cold-war secrets, afterwards, he is summarily hijacked by MI-5 who tries to enlist him for their purposes. In the midst of this process, the beautiful messenger played by Michele Pfeiffler (White Oleander, Cheri, Personal Effects, Wolf, etc) captures Connerys interest causing him to decide to do the bidding of the spy agency. The director of the movie is Fred Schepisi who has done good work on a number of movies (Roxanne, Fierce Creatures, Barbarosa, A Cry in the Dark, etc) and does a good enough job with this one especially making it well-plotted and weaving a very good romantic mystery into the flix. If you like spy novels, intrigue, suspense (especially endings) or are a collector of Connery 's movies, then you certainly will like this one and will want to add it to your dvd collection. A good movie that will fill a evening with a good evening of entertainment for most watchers.Vollständige Rezension lesen
The Russia House is a movie centered during the late phases of the Cold War era in England and Russia. It is an extremely well written and directed movie containing espionage drama, humor, and of course a very well done love subplot with superb big name actors. Plus it takes you on a well done visual tour of eastern Europe. No FX or CGI action graphics. Most of the outdoor scenes were taken with a human mounted steady cam that makes you feel you are there in the drama at the moment. If you want action heroes, this is not the film for you. But if you want to see what the REAL world was like 25 years ago, give it a try.
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With all of the chaos and war taking place at this moment, I just wanted to revisit this movie and its characters. It transports one back to a simpler time. I like to see the evolution of the characters. Being a hopeful romantic, I enjoy a relatively, happy ending, when possible.
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More an awkward love story than a John LeCarre spy thriller. I liked the film for it's location shots and for it's realism, being one of the first filmed in Russia at the fall of the Soviet Union. It's somewhat historic and not for everyone, but a good addition to the home video library and certainly worth preserving. I liked it a lot.
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Great movie although plot flawed. Based on a novel, from which the movie is faithfully adapted almost word for word, which struggles somewhat to tell a wholly convincing story about Russia in the era of perestroika and glasnost. The finale is something of a cop out relative to the novel but ultimately more satisfying for movie audiences. Captures American bureaucracy and military arrogance to a tee.
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A entertaining spy drama . With very good acting from the lead characters .Somewhat of a fairy tale ending.
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Mr. Sean Connery is one of our very dearest actors and Michelle Pfeiffer rates as one of the very most beautiful women and talented actresses in the entire world. This is a movie which deals with the element of human striving for companionship amidst a coldness that pervades many a beautiful soul at different times of upheaval in their lives and in ther environments. While Connery and Pfeiffer are not convincing as an ideally suited couple, Connery shows great taste in the choice he makes to gain her love. A very beautiful unfolding in this respect which makes the movie very special indeed. Championing the cause of real and true idealism in the style of a great hero, Connerys character makes a very risky and suspenseful play to maintain the balance of power in east west nuclear deterrence based on nothing more than hiw actions as a lone operator in the theatre at his level of intellectual functioning. If you enjoy spy movies in the Lecarre genre and are intellectually curious in this respect, youll absolutely love this movie. And then again I would never have missed it for the real treat it is to have Michelle Pfeiffer show off her real human beauty which captures the imagination of all in giving us a real sense of what it is to live and what it is we would die for. That is the message in the end and it gives Connerys character the food for thought that leads to his brave decision. A movie you will love to have in your home library!Vollständige Rezension lesen
I have loved this film since its original debut in 1990. Both Sean Connery and Michelle Pfiher are gerat actors. The movie was also one of the early cinematic views of Russia, including Moscow and the vincinity. It is well-shot, and brilliantlly acted. There is also the engaging musical score which I bought separately. This DVD replaces my aging T-120 video tape and I'm sure it will last a long time. It was a good choice.
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I bet Sean Connery really enjoyed making this movie. He lets his hair down and plays "Barley" Scott Blair, a free-wheeling always-near-a-bottle British publisher who seems less interested in publishing and more interested in rubbing elbows with his Russian writer & publishing friends (and Russian people overall) whom he finds down-to-earth and honest. When asked to compare Russia and America he says "Oh, it is corrupt as America, but there's less bullsh**." During one of his frequent trips to Russia he finds himself at Peredelkino, the "writer's village", spending the afternoon "solving the world's problems" with several writer friends where, with the aid of the ever-present bottle, he waxes eloquent about truth and justice, and unbeknownst to him, stirs the patriot spirit of a Russian physicist (code-named "Dante") there on a "drinking holiday." Michelle Phifer plays Katya Orlova, the physicist's long-time friend and one-time lover who works for a Russian publisher. Sometime after her physicist friend is stirred to action by Barley's eloquence, she receives a manuscript from him with instructions to forward it to Barley whom he believes will publish it in Britian. Being concerned about Russia's future and the future of her own children there, she attempts to get the manuscript to Barley during a book fair in Moscow. She arrives at the book fair and finds Barley's booth, but it is empty. She inquires at the adjacent booth about Barley's absence, and is told by Niki Landau, a publishing friend of Barley, that Barley never showed up. In apparent desparation she asks Niki to take the manuscript and get it to Barley. The movie centers around what happened to the manuscript after Niki can't find Barley, decides to have a look at it himself, then decides to give it to British Intelligence, who later elicit Barley's help to find and indetify the writer of the manuscript. The movie opens with Barley being questioned by British Intelligence about the manuscript. All of the above background is brought in through a series of flashbacks as Barley explains to the Intelligence folks about the Peredelkino meeting where he remembers briefly talking to the one they called Dante. One of the best things about this movie is the background music consisting mostly of some very well done jazz variations on the song "A Time For Love." I found the music so good that I also bought the soundtrack CD. For a really good love story that develops out of a Russian physicist's effort to get a the truth about Russia's strategic defense readiness out to the world, and takes you on a tour of the beauty of Moscow, Lenningrad, and the Russian countryside, topped off by a really good jazz soundtrack, see "Russia House." ReviewVollständige Rezension lesen
Two of the best actors, Connery and Pfeiffer engaging. Excellent story
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