Sibirskiy tsiryulnik (The Barber of Siberia) (1999)

Oleg Menshikov, Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Alexei Petrenko, Vladimir Ilyin ... see more  , Alexandr Yakovlev , Marat Basharov , Daniel Olbrychski , Anna Mikhalkova , Robert Hardy , Isabelle Renauld , Yevgeny Steblov , Mac MacDonald , Pierre Aussedat , Elizabeth Spriggs , Nikita Mikhalkov , Josef Nedorost , Avangard Leontyev , John Higgins , Leonid Kuravlev , Vyacheslav Maksakov , Olga Anokhina , Yevgeny Dvorzhetsky , Alexandr Ilyin , Alexandr Karpenko , Tatyana Kuznetsova , Alexandr Lenkov , Alexandr Mokhov , Marina Neelova , Yelena Obolenskaya , Andrei Savostyanov , Sergei Steblov , Viktor Verzhbitsky , Vladimir Zaytsev , Nikita Tatarenko , Artem Mikhalkov , Georgy Dronov , Nastya Mikhalkova , Daniel Evans , Inna Nabatova , Philipp Diachkov , Hanna Stredova , Vladimir Tushko , Vladimir Gorushin , Saïd Nouroux , Evgeny Buslayev , Maria Maksakova , Polushke Zdunek , Anatoly Documentov , Vatslav Legner , Egor Blokhin , Andrey Nikitin , Mambo Syril , Mudio Nartsiss , Andrey Baroli , Kirill Grebenshikov , Vladimir Zurabian , Alexey Kabeshev , Alexey Kurutov , Ivan Lakshin , Dimitry Makarov , Sergey Pinchuk , Philipp Feoktistov , Dimitry Chuprakov , Kirill Shanshiev , Mikhail Shevchuk , Alexey Shutov , Andrew O'Donnels , Richard Dompsy , Sergey Lozovoy , Alexander Sannikov , Anataly Zhukov , Alexander Dubina , Natella Abuladze , Elena Tvelevna , Valéry Chitavin , Alexander Muzikantsky , Evgeny Tsimbal , Vasily Sazhin , Anatoly Saprykin , Evgeny Kholodnikov , Zinaida Sidorkova , Oleg Klimov , Victor Satonin , Alexander Dedushko , Roman Radov , Vladimir Abanshin , L. Dzhalakayev's Gypsy Ensemble , Students of Moscow State School Of Circus and Performance Arts , Actors of Moscow Circus on Prospect Vernadskogo , Aleksei Petrenko , Marina Neyolova

Love blooms amidst the backdrop of czarist Russia in Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia. The story opens in 1905 Springfield, MA, when a woman writes a letter to a young man in a military summer... read more -training camp. He is currently being punished by one of his superiors, who forces him to wear a gas mask until he acknowledges that Mozart was a worthless composer. The woman has an important story to tell her addressee, and our story flashes back 20 years to Russia, where American Jane Callahan (Julia Ormond) is traveling to Moscow. A man who may or may not be Jane's father, Douglas McCracken (Richard Harris), is trying to perfect a machine, christened "The Barber of Siberia," that will harvest trees from the vast Siberian forests. Douglas hopes Jane can charm Gen. Radlov (Alexei Petrenko), the head of a Russian military academy, into arranging the financing that will enable him to complete his work on the harvester. En route, Jane meets a friendly Russian soldier, Andrei Tolstoy (Oleg Menshikov), and the two soon fall in love. Jane then meets and flirts with Radlov, who grows reciprocally fond of her -- enough so that he asks her to marry him. When it becomes evident she'd rather be with Tolstoy, he finds himself shipped off to Siberia after allegedly attacking a grand duke. Merging romance, costume drama, and slapstick comedy, The Barber of Siberia was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi