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Play time: 177 min. Sound formats: Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: DVD video PAL Format of the screen: WideScreen 16:9 (1.78:1) Subtitles: English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic Language(s): English, Russian DVD region: 0 (All) Menu languages: Russian
Distribyutor: RUSCICO
Rossiya - CHehiya - Italiya - Frantsiya
Barrandov, Le Studio Canal+, France 2 Cinema, Goskino Rossii, Medusa Produzione, Studiya `TriTe`, Camera One
The Barber of Siberia (Sibirskiy ciryulnik) (RUSCICO)
Set in turn of the century Russia, a passionate and epic love story about lost love, betrayal and the human spirit.
1905, Jane Callaghan a once beautiful American writes to her son, a cadet at the famous West Point military academy. 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.
On her travels, she meets two men who will change her life forever. A handsome young cadet, Andrey Tolstoy, with whom she shares a fondness of opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is spellbound by her beauty. The General wants her hand in marriage, and she knows she can use him to gain access to the Grand Duke.
Tolstoy and Radlov vie for the love of the woman with whom they are obsessed. She confides a deep secret to Tolstoy, promises to marry him, and together they spend a passionate night of love. But later he overhears Jane denying her interest in him to the General. Distraught, Tolstoy attacks the General who arrests his young rival on false charges and banishes him to Siberia.
Jane never gives up hope of finding Tolstoy, her true love. Years later, although by now married to McCracken, she returns to Russia to discover where he lives in Siberia. She goes to his home, a barber's shop, where she finds a spirit and happiness that leave her with the knowledge that the one thing she still has is her secret, which will forever tie her and her son to the huge mysterious country.
Special features:
* Filmographies and pictures of the film-makers and the starring cast
* Video interview with N. Mikhalkov, O. Menshikov, Julia Ormond;
* Off-scene commentary to fragments of other films by Nikita Mikhalkov and Pavel Lebeshev;
* Documentary video materials about the filming of the 'Barber of Siberia';
* Photo album with run-through and filming moments
