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.




Roy Scheider
Russell

James Fox
Ned

John Mahoney
Brady

Michael Kitchen
Clive

J. T. Walsh
Colonel Quinn

Ken Russell
Walter