Directed by:
Nikita MikhalkovCinematography:
Pavel LebeshevComposer:
Eduard ArtemyevCast:
Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Marina Neyolova, Vladimir Ilyin, Daniel Olbrychski, Marat Basharov, Anna Mikhalkova (more)Plots(1)
Jane Callahan travels to Russia in the late 19th Century to help a man who may be her father with his new invention. He has made a logging machine, which he hopes will transform the forests of Siberia, and needs support from the Grand Duke. Jane meets and falls in love with a young army cadet, Andrei, but his superior decides that he'd like to marry Jane, and forces the hapless Andrei to be his interpreter. (official distributor synopsis)
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One of the most beautiful love stories I've ever seen. Beautiful music, production design, and performances – there is nothing to fault. Oblomov is still my favourite Mikhalkov film, but The Barber of Siberia is not far behind.
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A Russian love epic they way it is meant to be - bittersweet, full of foresight, absurdity, and full of humanity. If there is something that spoils it for me, then perhaps it is that Michalkov's directing is just too sweeping, and in places it gets too carried away by the breadth of the story... then we also have the overly "western" voice of the narrator, which brings a lot of unnecessary melodrama to the otherwise very natural style of the narration. However, the performances of Julie Ormond and Oleg Menshikov are spectacular, the music beautiful, the humorous places irresistibly Russian, and the entire love story is sympathetically believable. The last time I enjoyed such a great romantic film was probably when I watched Doctor Zhivago.
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