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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
Directed by Bill Morrison
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.
Length 81 minutes
Actors
Gísli Fannar Gylfason | Erlendur Sveinsson | Pyotr Bagrov | Mikhail Zharov | Tsar Nicholas II | V.I. Lenin | Joseph Stalin | Leon Trotsky