Synopsis

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.

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

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George Roth

Cy

Peter Marinker

U.S. Scientist

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Ellen Hurst

Anna

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Peter Knupffer

Sergey

Nikolai Pastukhov

Uncle Matvey

Jason Salkey

Johnny

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Eric Anzumonyln

Nasayan

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Daniel Woźniak

Zapadny

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