Synopsis for
The Russia House (1990) More at IMDbPro »

A Soviet physicist, played by Brandauer, weary of the damage the Cold War was doing to his country and the world, wants to secretly broadcast to the West the greatly weakened state of the Soviet Union during the 1980s - his message to a British publisher (Connery) sent via Pfeiffer, is intercepted by British intelligence, who then attempt to use (in conjunction with the CIA) the publisher to contact the Soviet physicist for their own agenda. Inevitably the Soviets catch on and the physicist is tortured to death, the publisher ends up betraying both sides (East and West) in order to uphold higher values - love of one's fellow man (and woman...). This superlative movie preceded the much over-rated Énglish Patient' with its message of 'grey men' who were endangering the world and causing enormous grief around it with their paranoia and lust for world-domination, and suggested 'we must all betray our own countries' to counter such evil.....

In every respect a movie to watch, savor, and re-watch....its only 'flaw' being a ''masculine'' approach which did not pander to feminist sensibilities like the considerably inferior Énglish Patient' which succeeded it and garnered more praise because it did pander to feminist preferences - a male character dying for a woman.....