
"Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept."
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.
Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair

Katya Orlova

Russell

Ned

Brady

Clive

Colonel Quinn

Walter

Wicklow

Dante

Bob

Niki Landau

Brock

Merrydew

Henziger

Paddy

Cy
U.S. Scientist

Anna
Sergey
Uncle Matvey

Johnny

Nasayan
Zapadny
Yuri
Tout
Larry

Todd

Merv

Stanley

Spikey

George
Anastasia
Watcher

Watcher

Misha
Jr. Minister - Whitehall
Scientist - Whitehall

Army Officer - Whitehall
Psychoanalyst - Whitehall

Russian Guest
Russian Guest

Jacky

Charlotte

Technician

Hoover
Hoover
Hoover

Katya's Father
Russian Writer

Dan
Lev
Colonial Type

major of KGB

Arkady

KGB Interviewer

KGB Man
Flute Player
Delegate (uncredited)

company representative (uncredited)

an officer of the Leningrad police
