Stars: Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov, Alexey Petrenko, Robert Hardy, Robert Hardy, Vladimir Ilyin

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

Summary: This lush, Russian tale follows Jane (Ormond), a young American woman who is travelling to Moscow. On the way she meets a young cadet Andrey Tolstoy with whom she shares a passion for music. She happens to be visiting the cadet's own military Academy in order seduce General Radlov, who falls for Jane and soon pens a marriage proposal. He asks cadet Tolstoy to make his proposal known to Jane, and as he does so feels he must express his own feelings for her and they inevitably fall in love. Featuring Richard Harris and Oleg Menshikov, THE BARBER OF SIBERIA is a ravishing, old-fashioned and snowswept story, a visual delight.

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Much criticised on its first appearance as spectacle without affect, Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia is a fascinating, loopy mess worth seeing for its large-scale set pieces and good central performances. The Barber of Siberia was the most expensive film ever made in Russia, with its epic sweeps of landscape and scenes of disorder and drunkenness that remind us what lurked under the superficial structures of late-Tsarist life. Jane Callaghan (Julia Ormond) is an adventurer hired to smooth the way for McCracken (Richard Harris), inventor of a vast tree-felling machine. She blunders around a world of aristocratic influence and intrigue, having become so used to cunning and deceit that she has forgotten she has a heart. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) is the military cadet whom she meets on the train going east, an aesthete and chancer whose love for her in the face of all the her good sense finally becomes tragic. Menshikov is convincing as lover, buffoon and tragic hero. --Roz Kaveney

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Original Theatrical Trailer, Interactive Menus, Scene Selection
Year:	1998
Release Date:	September 26, 2005
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P 900201000
Keywords:	Barber, General, Romantic, Drama, Siberia, Rescheduled
Genre:	Drama