The Barber of Siberia (1998)

11/11/1998 (FR) • 3h

Comedy, Drama, Romance, History

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.

Top Billed Cast

Julia Ormond

Jane Callahan

Oleg Menshikov

André Tolstoi

Aleksey Petrenko

General Radlov

Richard Harris

Douglas McCraken

Vladimir Ilin

Captain Mokine

Artyom Mikhalkov

Boutourline


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$35,000,000.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

siberia

19th century

early 1900s

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