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The Barber of Siberia
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1162
- IMDb #964
- Rotten Tomatoes #3707
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #836
- Kinopoisk #505
- AlloCiné #2217
+1 more
- Trakt #1689
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 88.
See the most agreed on films →Douglas is 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. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Details
- Director
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Studio
- Camera One, France 2 Cinéma, Studio Trite, Canal+
- Released
- 11 November 1998
- Country
- France, Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 180 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $35.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1999 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Russia | Nominee |
| State Prize of the Russian Federation 1998 | State Prize of the Russian Federation | Winner |
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×| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Russia | Nominee |
| State Prize of the Russian Federation | Winner |