The Barber of Siberia
– Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe..
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.
20 Feb 1999
Russian, English, French, German
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov (story), Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay), Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay), Rospo Pallenberg (in cooperation with)
Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris
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 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.
1 win & 3 nominations.
Arthaus Filmverleih