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"Barber of Siberia"

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"Springfield, Massachusetts, 1905. Writing a letter to her son Andrew, a recruit at a US military camp, Jane Callahan reminisces about the events of 20 years ago. Russia, 1885. Travelling across Russia, Jane meets Andrei Tolstoy, an officer cadet who falls in love with her. Jane is in Russia to help the inventor Douglas McCracken secure a contract for his 'barber', a machine for cutting down the Siberian forests. For this purpose, she attempts to seduce General Radlov, the head of the Military Academy. Radlov falls in love with her and asks Tolstoy, who speaks English, to translate his proposal to Jane. The cadet, however, uses this as an opportunity to declare his own love for Jane. Radlov is humiliated but cannot punish Tolstoy who is to take the lead the next day in a production of The Marriage of Figaro before Grand Duke Aleksei. Later Jane spends the night with Tolstoy. During the opera, Tolstoy overhears Jane continuing her advances on Radlov; in his jealous rage he assaults the general. He is arrested and accused of an attack on the Grand Duke, to which he pleads guilty to protect Jane's reputation. He is sentenced to hard labor in Siberia. Ten years later, Jane visits Siberia with McCracken, to whom she is now married, for the inauguration of his 'barber'. She fails to see the exiled Tolstoy. Having related all of this in her letter to Andrew, she visits the boy with a photograph of his father, Andrei Tolstoy."
"Richard Harris stars as 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. Julia Ormond portrays his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, played by Russian star Oleg Menshikov, and spends the next ten years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia."
"A romance set in Russia in 1885 between a young Russian soldier and a foreign woman."
""Richard Harris stars as 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. Julia Ormond portrays his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, played by Russian star Oleg Menshikov, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia"--Internet Movie Database."
"An idealized vision of late Tsarist Russia combines comedy and serious drama as it tells the story of Jane Callahan, a young American woman who goes to Moscow where her father, an inventor, wants her to charm a Russian general in order to convince him to finance the father's dream machine. Although the general would like to marry Jane, she falls in love with a young Russian officer with tragic results."
"An idealized vision of late Tsarist Russia combines comedy and serious drama as it tells the story of an American woman who falls in love with a young Russian officer with tragic results."@en
"A foreign entrepreneur [Richard Harris] 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 [Oleg Menshikov], and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.--from Ruscico website."