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Quick Info

Rating

7.1/10

Release1998

Runtime3h 0m

StatusReleased

Budget$35,000,000

RevenueN/A

Production

Caméra One

France 2 Cinéma

Studio Trite

Canal+

Eurimages

Medusa Film

Barrandov Studio

Goskino

Movie

The Barber of Siberia

1998

3h 0m

7.1

Comedy

Drama

Romance

History

Synopsis

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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