The Barber of Siberia

Name: The Barber of Siberia
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, History
Released: 1998-11-11
Duration: 3 h
Rating: 7
Cast: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris, Vladimir Ilin

“He's Russian. That explains a lot.”

7.0

1998

ComedyDramaRomanceHistory

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

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.