Movie
The Barber of Siberia
1998 · 180 min
A sweeping, old-fashioned epic that blends romance, comedy, and tragedy against the vast Russian landscape, demanding patience but rewarding with emotional grandeur.
- Directed by
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko
- Tagline
- 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.
- How it feels
- Romantic, melancholic, earnest and whimsical. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, betrayal, obsession, class
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko
