The Barber of Siberia
Sibirskiy tsiryulnik, feature film, 1998.
DIRECTED BY: Nikita Mikhalkov
CAST:
Julia Ormond (Jane),
Oleg Menshikov (Tolstoj),
Aleksey Petrenko (general Radlov),
Richard Harris (Douglas McCracken),
Daniel Olbrychski (Kopnovskiy)
SCRIPT:
Rustam Ibragimbekov,
Nikita Mikhalkov,
Rospo Pallenberg
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Pavel Lebeshev
Synopsis:
Jane writes a letter to her son who is currently in a military camp and reveals to him the truth about events that took place twenty years ago. Together with the engineer and entrepreneur Douglas McCracken she travelled to Russia to help him secure the patent called the Barber of Siberia. One of her tasks is to charm the Russian military generals who might help them. General Radlov is enchanted with Jane and proposes to her. However, Jane falls in love with the young cadet Tolstoy.
35 mm, color, 180 min