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Released
1990 · FILM

The Russia House

A reluctant literary editor is recruited by British intelligence to locate a trapped Soviet dissident scientist, forcing him into a high‑stakes game of espionage where trust is scarce and the fate of East–West relations hangs in the balance.

“Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.”

Directed by
Fred Schepisi
Written by
John Le Carre, Tom Stoppard
Runtime
118 min
DramaRomanceThriller

Synopsis

Barley Scott Blair, a Russian literature editor based in Lisbon, unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence and is commissioned to investigate the intentions of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the Soviet Union, which is in decline under its new open-minded policies.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter HonessShot by Ian BakerScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Richard Macdonald

Box Office

1990 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$23.0M

Budget$21.8M
Worldwide gross$23.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Russland Hausde
  • Das Rußland-Hausde
  • La casa Rusiaes
  • La Maison Russiefr
  • La casa Russiait

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