RU-B008-1998

Barber of Siberia, Tape 2 -- LOCATED IN I.A.S. OFFICE

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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 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 labour 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 T Notes: 2 of 2 videocassettes. Director: Nikita Mikhalkov. Color. Country: Russia. No Subtitles. (I.A.S. now located in Old McMillan 254.)