The Barber of Siberia
Synopsis
1905 – Jane Callahan a once beautiful American writes to her son, a cadet at a famous military academy. 1885 – Her memories take us back 20 years to when she arrived in Russia to assist Douglas McCracken, an obsessive engineer who needs the Grand Duke’s patronage to sponsor his invention, a massive machine to harvest the forests of Siberia. She is supposed, as McCracken’s daughter, to seduce the main representative authorities for him to be able to sell his machine. On her travels, she will meet a handsome young cadet, Andreï Tolstoï. They will share the passion for opera and the young officer will fall in love with the beautiful stranger…
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Camera One
- Co-productions : Pyramide Productions, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Medusa, Three T Productions, Filmové Studio Barrandov
- Film exports/foreign sales : Intermedia Arc Pictures, Pyramide International
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Michel Seydoux
- Screenwriters : Nikita Mikhalkov, Roustam Ibraguimbekov
- Director of Photography : Pavel Lebechev
- Music Composer : Edward Nicolay Artmeymev
- Editor : Enzo Meniconi
- Sound recordists : Jean Umansky, André Rigaut
- Costume designer : Natacha Ivanova
- Line Producer : Leonid Vereschagin
- Co-producers : Nikita Mikhalkov, Fabienne Vonier
- Production managers : Jacques Vidal, Sergueï Gurevitch, Alexey Balashov
- Press Attachés (film) : Tristan Whalley, Isabelle Sauvanon
- Sound Editor : Laurent Kossayan
- Continuity supervisor : Jacqueline Gamard
- Production Designer : Vladimir Aronin
- Sound Mixer : Thierry Lebon
- Still Photographers : Arnaud Borrel, Igor Gnevashev
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| Platforms | Model | Price | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
 ORANGE VOD | Rent | 2,99 € | SD |
 UNIVERSCINE | Rent | 2,99 € | SD |
| ORANGE VOD | Buy | 5,99 € | SD |
| UNIVERSCINE | Buy | 7,99 € | SD |
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Romance
- Production language : Russian
- Coproducer countries : Russia, Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : No
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International releases
| Country | Distributor | Buyer | Release date | Titre local |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Belgium | 12/05/1999 | |||
 Bulgaria | 2000 | |||
 Czech Republic | 20/01/2000 | |||
 French-speaking Switzerland | 12/05/1999 | |||
 Germany | 2000 |
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About
"I thought I'd already been involved in colossal productions such as Joseph Losey's "Don Giovanni" and Jean-Paul Rappenau's "Cyrano de Bergerac." But "Barbier de Sibérie" was stupendous—three years in production, thirty weeks of shooting, twelve months of editing. . . . But what an extraordinary exploit!"
(Michel Seydoux, Producer)
