
180 minutes
11/11/1998
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.

Julia Ormond
as Jane Callahan

Oleg Menshikov
as André Tolstoi

Aleksey Petrenko
as General Radlov

Richard Harris
as Douglas McCraken

Vladimir Ilin
as Captain Mokine

Marat Basharov
as Polievsky
Georgiy Dronov
as Nazarov

Nikita Tatarenkov
as Alibekov

Artyom Mikhalkov
as Boutourline

Daniel Olbrychski
as Kopnovsky

Marina Neyolova
as André Tolstoï's mother

Avangard Leontyev
as André Tolstoi's uncle

Anna Mikhalkova
as Douniacha

Robert Hardy
as Forsten

Elizabeth Spriggs
as Perepiolkina

Nikita Mikhalkov
as Imperator Aleksandr III

Isabelle Renauld
as Imperatritsa

Evgeniy Steblov
as Velikiy knyaz

Viktor Verzhbitskiy
as Adyutant Velikogo knyazya

Leonid Kuravlyov
as Vakhmistr Bukin

Aleksandr Lenkov
as Uchenyy

Aleksandr Ilin
as Kupets

Aleksandr Mokhov
as Ofitser

Yelena Obolenskaya
as Stuttering Cadet

Richard Dempsey
as Kadet-zaika

Jason Done
as Kadet

Filipp Dyachkov
as Mikhail, son of tsar

Vladimir Zaytsev
as Radlov's Adjutant

Evgeniy Dvorzhetskiy
as Terrorist

Pierre Aussedat
as Geller

Vladimir Goryushin
as Coachman Kuzma

Olga Anokhina
as Governor's Wife

Aleksandr Yakovlev
as Maksimych

Tatyana Kuznetsova
as Cool Lady

Josef Nedorost
as Violinist
Václav Legner
as Inspector

Kirill Grebenshchikov
as Cadet
Ivan Lakshin
as Cadet

Sergey Pinchuk
as Cadet

Sergey Steblov
as Cadet

Aleksey Shutov
as Cadet

Mac McDonald
as Sergeant O'Leary

Daniel Evans
as Andrew (in Mask)

Jason Done
as Cadet
Mikhail Shevchuk
as Cadet

Andrey Barilo
as Cadet
Filipp Feoktistov
as Cadet
Igor Sannikov
as Lilliputian 'Napoleon'
Aleksandr Dubina
as Engineer

Pierre Narcisse
as Prince's Servant

Aleksandr Dedyushko

Pavel Maykov

Roman Radov

Anna Nevskaya

Vladimir Tyagichev

Igor Klimov
Oleg Savosin
Mariya Felyanina

Tatyana Vasilyeva
Hana Středová
as Mr. McCracken's Housemaid

Nadezhda Mikhalkova
as Girl at the Fair (uncredited)
Anatoliy Skoryakin
as General (uncredited)
Igor Bondarenko
as Funny General (uncredited)

Pavel Kornakov
as Officer (uncredited)
Angela Dmitrieva
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)