The Barber of Siberia
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Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1998-11-11
Runtime: 180 mins
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov, Rospo Pallenberg
Spoken language: English, Deutsch, Pусский
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, History
Original title: The Barber of Siberia
Production Companies: Caméra One, France 2 Cinéma, Studio Trite, Canal+, Eurimages, Medusa Film, Barrandov Studio, Goskino
Production Countries: France, Russia
Cast
Julia Ormond
Oleg Menshikov
Aleksey Petrenko
Richard Harris
Vladimir Ilin
Marat Basharov
Georgiy Dronov
Nikita Tatarenkov
Artyom Mikhalkov
Daniel Olbrychski
Marina Neyolova
Avangard Leontyev
Anna Mikhalkova
Robert Hardy
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