The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
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.
- Released
- 2021-04-27
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Bill Morrison
- TMDB rating
- 4.0/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Gísli Fannar Gylfason as Self - Fróði II Trawler Crew Member
- Erlendur Sveinsson as Self - Former NFAI Director
- Pyotr Bagrov as Self - Former Gosfilmotond Curator
- Mikhail Zharov as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
- Czar Nicholas II of Russia as Self (archive footage)
- Vladimir Lenin as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Joseph Stalin as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Leon Trotsky as Self - Politician (archive footage)
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