The Handmaiden
2016 · Thriller · Drama
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Film / 1990
The Russia House
Directed by
Fred Schepisi
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.
The story
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 ConneryBartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair
Michelle PfeifferKatya Orlova
Roy ScheiderRussell
James FoxNed
John MahoneyBrady
Michael KitchenClive
J.T. WalshColonel Quinn
Ken RussellWalter
David ThrelfallWicklow
Klaus Maria BrandauerDante
Mac McDonaldBob
Nicholas WoodesonNiki Landau
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Martin ClunesBrock
Ian McNeiceMerrydew
Colin StintonHenziger
Denys HawthornePaddy
George RothCy
Peter MarinkerU.S. Scientist
Ellen HurstAnna
Peter KnupfferSergey
Nikolai PastukhovUncle Matvey
Jason SalkeyJohnny
Eric AnzumonylnNasayan
Daniel WoźniakZapadny
Giorgi AnjaparidzeYuri
Vladek NikiforovTout
Christopher LawfordLarry
Mark LaMuraTodd
Blu MankumaMerv
Tuck MilliganStanley
Jay BenedictSpikey
David TimsonGeorge
Yelena StroyevaAnastasia
Fyodor SmirnovWatcher
Pavel SirotinWatcher
Paul JutkevitchMisha
David HenryJr. Minister - Whitehall
Martin WennerScientist - Whitehall
Paul RatteeArmy Officer - Whitehall
Simon TemplemanPsychoanalyst - Whitehall
Gina NikiforovRussian Guest
Raisa RyazanovaRussian Guest
Kate LockJacky
Charlotte CornwellCharlotte
Craig CrosbieTechnician
Keith EdwardsHoover
Michael FitzpatrickHoover
Rob FreemanHoover
Gennady VenovKatya's Father
Aleksandr YatskoRussian Writer
Vladimir ZunetovDan
Jack RaymondLev
David RyallColonial Type
Nikolay Dikmajor of KGB
Alexei JawdokimovArkady
Constantine GregoryKGB Interviewer
Sergey ReusenkoKGB Man
Yegueshe TsturvanFlute Player
Jonty ReasonDelegate (uncredited)
Vladimir Kuznetsovcompany representative (uncredited)
Vladimir Sidorovan officer of the Leningrad police
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