Sibirskiy tsiryulnik

"He's Russian. That explains a lot."

Feb 20 1999 N/A 3h 0m
Comedy, Drama, History

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.

Plot

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, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, André, and spends the next ten years perfecting the harvester, and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.

Written by

Nikita Mikhalkov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Rospo Pallenberg

Directed by

Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast

Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko

Crew

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Production Countries

Russia, France

Production Companies

Studio Trite, France 2 Cinéma, Caméra One

Languages

Deutsch, English

Awards

1 win & 4 nominations

Trailers
The Barber of Siberia, trailer
Scores
# of Votes
13,049
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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