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 The Russia House 

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The Russia House is a 1990 American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay based on John le Carré's novel of the same name. The film stars Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, and Klaus Maria Brandauer.

It was filmed on location in the Soviet Union, only the second American motion picture (the first being the 1988 film Red Heat) to do so before its dissolution in 1991.
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Slow burning, but involving, and one of Connery's more interesting post-Bond roles.

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Being only the second US film to be filmed on location in Russia (Red Heat was the first), The Russia House becomes the movie that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy wanted to be. Connery has an energy about him that Gary Oldman just couldn't match - probably due to the fact that he underplayed the character. The Russia House is not energetic, but it's an intelligent operetta of boardroom espionage, and I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than Tinker.

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