The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

81 mins | Documentary, History | April 27, 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.

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

81 mins | Documentary, History | April 27, 2021

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
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.
Producers Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures
Original title The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Directors Bill Morrison
Writers Bill Morrison

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)