I've spent a ridiculous amount of time searching the web, including Russian, Spanish, and other foreign DVD distributors, for a copy of the uncut version. As far as I can see, there aren't any legit copies available (nor bootlegs, which I don't condone anyway). The user comment offered by the imdb user from Madrid, as well as a few articles I've come across, indicate that such a version was only ever released as a limited cinema distribution. I beleive that the "Russia TV" length refers to this version. The handful of native Russians I know own copies of the 180 minute cut and were not aware of any longer version shown on TV.
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1999 Cannes Film Festival Diaries
Day 1 (Part II)
by Henri Béhar
CANNES, Wednesday, May 12 - later.
Starring Julia Ormond, Richard Harris and Oleg Menshikov, The Barber of Siberia is a three-hour-long, lushly romantic epic (read: with tons of music). And that's the short version. Released in Russia earlier this year in a six-hour version, it has, according to director (and co-producer) Mikhalkov, made in a couple of months more than Titanic.
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Also:
http://www.trite.ru/news_in.mhtml?PubID=122
also
http://www.trite.ru/news_in.mhtml?PubID=22
You might want to type that web address into babelfish to translate it into English.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
I sent TriT an e-mail inquiring about the series, but the message was in English and I haven't received a response.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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