A departure from his Bond persona, Connery plays a "boozy, disheveled and poetic" publisher, as noted by the Words and Movies Podcast.
The story follows Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair (played by Sean Connery ), a disheveled, jazz-loving British publisher who receives a secret manuscript from Katya Orlova ( Michelle Pfeiffer ), a Soviet book editor. The Russia House
The story takes place during glasnost and perestroika , exploring the anxiety of what happens when the organized world of the Cold War collapses. A departure from his Bond persona, Connery plays