The Barber of Siberia

Nov 11, 1998

3h 0m

★ 7.1

He's Russian. That explains a lot.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

History

Production Companies

Caméra One

France 2 Cinéma

Studio Trite

Canal+

Eurimages

Goskino USSR

Medusa Film

Barrandov Studio

The Barber of Siberia Trailers

Cast

Jane Callahan

Julia Ormond

André Tolstoi

Oleg Menshikov

General Radlov

Aleksey Petrenko

Douglas McCraken

Richard Harris

Captain Mokine

Vladimir Ilin

Polievsky

Marat Basharov

Nazarov

Georgiy Dronov

Alibekov

Nikita Tatarenkov

Boutourline

Artyom Mikhalkov

Kopnovsky

Daniel Olbrychski

André Tolstoï's mother

Marina Neyolova

André Tolstoi's uncle

Avangard Leontyev

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