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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 21, 1990 |
Starring:
David Threlfall, J.T. Walsh, James Fox, John Mahoney, Ken Russell, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, Sean Connery
Summary:
An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
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There isn't a single chase scene in The Russia House. There's scarcely a love scene. And it dares to be slow. But it's attached to feelings as few spy movies are - and as even le Carre's book was not. The greatest compliment one can pay The Russia House is to say that it's the kind of spy movie that's making spy movies obsolete. [21 Dec 1990, p.49p]
Being allowed to film in Russia was a blessing and a curse -- Schepisi weighs down the film with endless pans and traveling shots of neoclassical and Russian baroque architecture. All those buildings, monuments and squares. [21 Dec 1990, p.G5]
Schepisi & Co. appear to have forgotten a tenet of film making: A moving picture needs to move to succeed. [21 Dec 1990, p.6]
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