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The Barber of Siberia

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Original title

Sibirskiy Tsiryulnik (The Barber of Siberia)

Year

1998

Running time

180 min.

Country

Russia

Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Screenwriter

Nikita Mikhalkov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Rospo Pallenberg

Cast

Music

Eduard Artemyev

Cinematography

Pavel Lebeshev

Producer

Co-production Russia-France-Italy-Czech Republic;

Studio Trite, Caméra One, France 2 Cinema, Medusa Produzione, Goskino, Eurimages, Canal+, Barrandov Biografia

Genre

Comedy. Drama | 19th Century

Synopsis

Richard Harris stars as 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. Julia Ormond portrays his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, played by Russian star Oleg Menshikov, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.

Rankings Position

#73 Best Russian Movies of all time

Awards: 1999: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)

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Critics' reviews

"By the end of it, no peasant imagined the first shy blooms of springtime more fervently than we, the audience, stoically awaited the closing credits"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"Overblown, overlong and decidedly underwhelming on every level, Nikita Mikhalkov’s magnum opus “The Barber of Siberia” is a singular disappointment."

David Stratton: Variety
"The scope of the story and its imense visual splendour leave little room for any human touches or emotion, which leaves the film lacking in soul."

David Parkinson: Empire
"What Chekhov would have dealt with in a few pages, writer/director Mikhalkov takes three hours to tell."

Greer McNally: Time Out

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