The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
DocumentaryHistory
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.
Director: Bill Morrison
Top Cast
Gísli Fannar Gylfason
Self - Fróði II Trawle
Erlendur Sveinsson
Self - Former NFAI Dir
Pyotr Bagrov
Self - Former Gosfilmo
Mikhail Zharov
Self - Actor / Various
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self - Politician (arc
Joseph Stalin
Self - Politician (arc
Leon Trotsky
Self - Politician (arc
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