Nikita MIKHALKOV
Никита МИХАЛКОВ
Nikita MIKHALKOV
Russia / France / Italy, 1998, 179mn 
Colour, fiction
The Barber of Siberia
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Сибирский цирюльник

 

 Le Barbier de Sibérie

 Sibirski tsiriulnik

 
Directed by : Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ)
Writing credits : Rustam IBRAGIMBEKOV (Рустам ИБРАГИМБЕКОВ), Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ)
 
Cast
Richard HARRIS (Ричард ХАРРИС) ...Douglas McCraken
Vladimir ILIN (Владимир ИЛЬИН) ...Le capitaine Mokin
Leonid KURAVLYOV (Леонид КУРАВЛЕВ)
Oleg MENSHIKOV (Олег МЕНЬШИКОВ) ... Andreï Tolstoï
Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ) ...Le Tsar Alexandre III
Anna MIKHALKOVA (Анна МИХАЛКОВА)
Julia ORMOND (Джулия ОРМОНД) ... Jane Callahan
Aleksey PETRENKO (Алексей ПЕТРЕНКО) ...Le général Radlov
Yevgeni TSYMBAL (Евгений ЦЫМБАЛ)
 
Cinematography : Pavel LEBESHEV (Павел ЛЕБЕШЕВ)
Production design : Vladimir ARONIN (Владимир АРОНИН)
Music : Eduard ARTEMIEV (Эдуард АРТЕМЬЕВ)
Produced by : Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ), Leonid VERESHCHAGIN (Леонид ВЕРЕЩАГИН)
Production : Trite, Michel Seydoux-Camera One
Film revenue in Russia : 2.600 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 20/02/1999
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
Release date in France : 1999-05-12, Site

Awards :
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Vladimir ILIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999
Grand prix au festival "Vive le cinéma de Russie!" (Виват кино России!), 1999
Prix du public au Festival Kinotavr, Sotchi, 1999

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Fox Pathé Europe

Plot synopsis
A foreign entrepreneur ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new experimental steam-driven harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Julia Ormond portrays his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.
Source : www.lib.berkeley.edu/
 

Commentaries and bibliography
RUSSIA BEYOND : Sept films russes qui vont vous faire pleurer, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
Никита Михалков: битва на небесах, Василий КОРЕЦКИЙ, seance.ru, 2015
Two Decades of Post-Soviet Cinema : Taking Stock of Our Stocktaking, Seth GRAHAM, kinokultura.com, 2008
Le cinéma des années 1990-2000. Images dispersées, Françoise NAVAILH, Russie, peuples et civilisations, La découverte, 2005
Le Barbier de Sibérie, de Nikita Mikhalkov, Claude-Marie TRÉMOIS, esprit.presse.fr, 1999
Россия, которую мы придумали, Oleg KOVALOV, seance.ru, 1999
Mikhalkov, la barbe !, Samuel BLUMENFELD, Le Monde, 14 mai 1999, 1999
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival de cinéma russe à Saint-Estève. Les toiles, Saint-Estève (France), 2021
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2019
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2017
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2017
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2013
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2013
- Semaine du cinéma russe à l'Institut Français du Congo, Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo), 2012
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2011
- Retrospective Nikita Mikhalkov in Paris, Paris (France), 2010
- Damascus International Film Festival, Damascus (Syria), 2009
- Lecce European Film Festival, Lecce (Italy), 2008
- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2007
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1999-05-12
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1999
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 1999

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