The Barber of Siberia
Nov 11 1998
•3h 0m
•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.
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Julia Ormond
Jane Callahan
Oleg Menshikov
André Tolstoi
Aleksey Petrenko
General Radlov
Richard Harris
Douglas McCraken
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