The Barber of Siberia

Jane Callahan (Julia Ormond), a beautiful American lady, writes to her son, a cadet at a famous military academy, about a long kept secret. Twenty years ago she arrived in Russia to assist Douglas McCracken (Richard Harris), an obsessive engineer who needs the Grand Duke#Russian grand dukes Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia's patronage to sponsor his invention, a massive machine to harvest the forests. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young Kursant Andrej Tolstoy (Oleg Menshikov) with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her. Tolstoy and Radlov, much to the surprise and indignation of the latter, become rivals for Jane's love. She confides a deep secret to Tolstoy, promises to marry him, and together they spend a passionate night of love. But later he overhears Jane denying her interest in him to the General, in order to win the general's favour and be granted an audience with the Grand Duke. Distraught, Tolstoy attacks the General who arrests his young rival on false charges and banishes him to Siberia to seven years of hard labor and a further five years of exile.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 13691
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide October 13, 1998
  • Runtime 180 minutes
  • Genres Comedy Drama
  • Original Country Russia
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English Russian German
  • Production Company Caméra One France 2 Cinéma Three T Productions
  • Production Countries France Russia
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