First-Time Viewing

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

Release Date:January 1, 2023

Running Time:81 min

Genres:History, Documentary

Director

Cast

Gísli Fannar Gylfason Erlendur Sveinsson Pyotr Bagrov Mykhailo Zharov Czar Nicholas II of Russia Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin Leon Trotsky

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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