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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 1991 | Michelle
1991 | Fred
Best Film | 1991 | Fred
Budget 21,800,000 USD
Box Office Collection 22,997,992 USD
The meaning and relevance of the title "The Russia House" is that it refers to the nickname given to the section of the British Secret Service that was assigned to investigating the Soviet Union.
This movie was the first major movie production from the West to be filmed substantially in the Soviet Union, with full permission from the Russian Government. This movie was filmed on location in Russia, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The beginning and final scenes were filmed in Lisbon, Portugal.
During filming, curious Soviet citizens came to set, not to see the stars, but to watch the film crew of Russians and Westerners eat food shipped in from Britain, because of shortages and lack of variety in the Soviet capital. "All the food is catered from London, feeding up to 150 people daily," producer Paul Maslansky said. "People come from all over just to look at the food... it's kind of sad." Subsequently, Michelle Pfeiffer held up filming in Moscow, when she discovered a rule forbidding Western movie companies from feeding the Soviet extras they hire, so she stomped off and refused to come back unless they were fed. To resolve the crisis, officials from the Soviet film commission had to be called in. Begging her to return to work, they explained that this was just the way things were done. In an interview with Esquire Magazine at the time of the movie's release, Pfeiffer commented on the incident. "In a country where you can't get food, where you can't get soap, here they were watching us shovelling down these platefuls of hot, steamy spaghetti. I didn't sleep that night. It was very traumatic. Then I realized, 'You know, this is so typically American of you. This is what, as a country, we're accused of all the time'. Now, whether I was right or wrong isn't the issue. The issue was, Do I have the right, as an outsider, to come in and force my sensibilities on this culture? At a certain point, I decided to leave my identity at the border. I thought to myself, Okay, you have no identity. And at that point, I was able to experience the country as it was, on a purer level, and finally to even embrace it."
Sir Sean Connery had casting approval for this movie, as part of his contract.
Production company Pathé Entertainment Ltd. refused to make this movie without Sir Sean Connery.
"Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair: I love you. All my failings were preparation for me to you. It's like nothing I have ever known: it's unselfish love, grown up love. You know it is. It's mature, absolute, thrilling love."
"Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair: So there was a crunch: to save your precious secrets or to trade them for Katya and her family. The easiest decision I ever made."
