About my favourite film.
My favourite film is The Barber of Siberia or Sibirskiy tsiryulnik or Сибирский цирюльник because it is russian film.
Its love-story about traitors, meaning of live and about love ,of course.
Jane Callahan, a once beautiful
American, writes to her son, a cadet at a famous
military academy, but who is he? 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. On her travels, she meets two men who will change her life forever: a handsome young Andrey Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness of opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her. 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. To 7 years of hard labor and 5 years of isolation.
Jane never gives up hope of finding Tolstoy, her true love. After ten years later, although by now married to McCracken, she returns to Russia to discover where he lives in Siberia. She goes to his home, where she finds that Tolstoy is married and with children. She leaves from there taking with her the secret of her true love which will forever tie her and her son to the huge mysterious country.
The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as
Oleg Menshikov,
Alexei Petrenko,
Marat Basharov,
Leonid Kuravlev, and Mikhalkov himself (as
Tsar Alexander III), and British actress
Julia Ormond.
