The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)

04/27/2021 (US) • 1h 21m

Documentary, History

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Gísli Fannar Gylfason

Self - Fróði II Trawler Crew Member

Erlendur Sveinsson

Self - Former NFAI Director

Pyotr Bagrov

Self - Former Gosfilmotond Curator

Mikhail Zharov

Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

Czar Nicholas II of Russia

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Leon Trotsky

Self - Politician (archive footage)


Recommendations

Hello

62%

Hello

61%

Hello

61%

Hello

63%

Free Willy 3: The Rescue

61%

Largo Winch II

58%

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

52%

Scooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales

99%

Getting There

58%

Green Street Hooligans 2

50%

Ultimate Driving Craft 3 - Eyes on main beam

58%

Hello

61%

Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

71%

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

55%

Sabrina Goes to Rome

60%

Six Days of Sistine

54%

Tajomaru: Avenging Blade

71%

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012

63%

All Monsters Attack

51%

New York Stories

62%

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$294,456.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

propaganda

cinema on cinema

found footage

russian history

portrait of an artist

soviet union history

© All Rights Reserved 2025