The Barber of Siberia

1998 · Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov · 180 min · comedy drama, romance film, historical film

★ 7.0/10 · 161 ratings on TMDB

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.