The Russia House 1990 123movies

Watch: The Russia House 1990 123movies, Full Movie Online – Three notebooks supposedly containing Russian military secrets are handed to a British publisher during a Russian book conference. The British Secret Service are naturally keen to learn if these notebooks are the genuine article. To this end, they enlist the help of the scruffy British publisher Barley Blair, who has plenty of experience with Russia and Russians. Barley, an unconventional character who doesn’t respond well to authority, finds himself in a game more complex than he first thought when he digs into the origin of the notebooks..
Plot: 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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	6.1/10 Votes: 16,305
	68% | RottenTomatoes
	67/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 229 Popularity: 14.296 | TMDB

Reviews:

Just re-visited it… spectacular!
In a nutshell: a Russian missile scientist, nicknamed Danté offers an obscure Brit publisher, Barley Blair, data that shows Russian missiles are junk.

The ‘8’ is my old rating-I might revise this to 9 or 10 after a fresh viewing. Here’s why: 1. I believe le Carré must have had Connery in mind for the lead character, Barley Blair. Truth is: Connery was born to play this role-no one else comes to mind. Barley is a drinker, publisher, philosopher at large. A bit of an anarchist, but firmly non-political. A jazz clarinetist who likes to gab about dreams of world peace-but he really does NOT want to get involved in the process. Connery is perfect.

2. Filmed partially in Russia, the scenery of Moscow & Leningrad is spectacular! This was an early (1990) production with Russian cooperation.

3. Tremendous supporting cast: Roy Scheider (from’Jaws’) as Russel Sheridan, the chief agent for US Intelligence, has to play a character of many qualities, above all, an optimist for truly ending the Cold War. When things don’t go as expected, he tells the team, ‘Put the stools on the bar-TIL next time’. Honorable mention: John Mahoney as ‘Brady’, the super spy who has the ear of all the American higher-ups, including the President (in the book, Brady is given godlike status-note what he says about the ‘deal’ being offered by Danté.). And many others! Nice to see a young Martin Clunes as an orderly-long before his Doc Martin days.

4. Not an action film, no sex scenes but some harsh language-but, basically a dramatic study of the Cold War’s conclusion. Carré was correct in pondering that even if the USSR missile system lagged way behind the Allied side, would the USA put thousands out of work by shutting down their production?

5. Fabulous irony. Danté tells Blair that ‘the men in grey suits came to get his father, & they will come to get you, too!’ Barley, like us, is reluctant to accept the notion that the ‘good guys’ are just as ruthless, but consider how strongly the Americans suspect Blair of complicity, when all indicators show that he is just not interested in money nor political matters.

Deliberately Paced.
Sean Connery is a publisher and saxophone player swept up in Cold War antics as an agent trying to smuggle scientific secrets of some sort out of Russia and into the West.

I never liked the soprano saxophone. I don’t know why it exists. It’s usually too shrill and is associated with supermarkets, cheap commercials, and Kenny G. Why isn’t the clarinet good enough, hey? This is one sluggish movie and a bit complicated, as the author’s plots tend to be. It’s redeemed by the shenanigans of the CIA/MI5 or MI6, a group of puppeteers behind Connery and his contact, Michelle Pfeiffer, led by a hot-headed Roy Scheider and a dry, ironic James Fox. J. T. Walsh — my co-star in the superlative “Windmills of the Gods”, or what it “Rage of Angels?”, I forget — is the ironbound US Army officer who suspects everyone of being a ComSymp and wants to bomb them all — “a hard-head from the ***hole up,” as someone describes him.

They put Connery through a lie detector test to make sure he’s not a commie, and the scene puts on display the movie’s most charming feature — its witty screenplay.

The wily interrogators ask Connery about his politics, his motives, his past. “Have you ever associated with any musicians with known anarchist tendencies?” Connery frowns thoughtfully. “Well, there was one trombone player. Willie Brown was his name. He was the only musician I’ve ever known who was completely devoid of any anarchist tendencies.” The performances are uniformly good, even Roy Scheider who seems about to stroke out at any moment and who shouts scatological imprecations. I think the role calls for it. I can’t understand why all the men are so awfully sun tanned though. The weather in Moscow and St. Petersberg are about what we can expect — more clouds of gray than any Russian play could guarantee.

The photography of Russian cities and their monuments is memorable.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 3 min (123 min)
Budget 21800000
Revenue 22997992
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director Fred Schepisi
Writer John le Carré, Tom Stoppard
Actors Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider
Country United States
Awards 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Technovision Camera and Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,392 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman)
Cinematographic Process Technovision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384)