The Barber of Siberia

The Barber of Siberia

1998 · 180 min · RU · PG-13 · 7.1 (166 votes)
Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov · Starring Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris, Vladimir Ilin, Marat Basharov · Music Eduard Artemyev

“He's Russian. That explains a lot.”

ComedyDramaRomanceHistory

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.

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A grand, sweeping romance set against the vast Siberian landscape. It feels like a classic, old-world epic, full of passionate longing, dramatic choices, and the bittersweet ache of what might have been. A truly transportive experience.

sweepingromanticepicmelancholicnostalgicsteadyhistorical epicperiod dramasweeping romancelovedestinycultural clashambition
siberia19th centuryearly 1900s
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