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)


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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

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