The Barber of Siberia

IMDb 7.0 1998 • 180 min • ComedyDramaRomanceHistory

Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Country

FR

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Julia Ormond
Julia Ormond Jane Callahan
Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Menshikov André Tolstoi
Aleksey Petrenko
Aleksey Petrenko General Radlov
Richard Harris
Richard Harris Douglas McCraken
Vladimir Ilin
Vladimir Ilin Captain Mokine