The Barber of Siberia

3h

Comedy

Drama

Romance

History

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.

Production Companies

Caméra One

France 2 Cinéma

Studio Trite

Canal+

Eurimages

Goskino USSR

Medusa Film

Barrandov Studio

Release date

11th Nov 1998

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch, English, Pусский