Movie · 1998
The Barber of Siberia
“He's Russian. That explains a lot.”
Released 11 November 1998 180 min Comedy / Drama / Romance / History More from 1998 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Robert Hardy
as Forsten
Elizabeth Spriggs
as Perepiolkina
Richard Harris
as Douglas McCraken
Aleksey Petrenko
as General Radlov
Daniel Olbrychski
as Kopnovsky
Nikita Mikhalkov
as Imperator Aleksandr III
Marina Neyolova
as André Tolstoï's mother
Avangard Leontyev
as André Tolstoi's uncle
Vladimir Ilin
as Captain Mokine
Mac McDonald
as Sergeant O'Leary
Olga Anokhina
as Governor's Wife
Pierre Aussedat
as Geller
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
as Adyutant Velikogo knyazya
Oleg Menshikov
as André Tolstoi
Julia Ormond
as Jane Callahan
Georgiy Dronov
as Nazarov
Marat Basharov
as Polievsky
Anna Mikhalkova
as Douniacha
Richard Dempsey
as Kadet-zaika
Nikita Tatarenkov
as Alibekov
Artyom Mikhalkov
as Boutourline
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The numbers
61years between the oldest and youngest billed
73Robert Hardy — oldest on the call sheet
12Artyom Mikhalkov — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast