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.
Sean Connery
as Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
Michelle Pfeiffer
as Katya Orlova
Roy Scheider
as Russell
James Fox
as Ned
John Mahoney
as Brady
Michael Kitchen
as Clive
J.T. Walsh
as Colonel Quinn
Ken Russell
as Walter
David Threlfall
as Wicklow
Klaus Maria Brandauer
as Dante
Mac McDonald
as Bob
Nicholas Woodeson
as Niki Landau