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.
Hypnotic Pictures
Picture Palace PicturesCrew
Cast
Self - Fróði II Trawler Crew Member
Gísli Fannar GylfasonSelf - Former NFAI Director
Erlendur SveinssonSelf - Former Gosfilmotond Curator
Pyotr BagrovSelf - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Mikhail ZharovSelf (archive footage)
Czar Nicholas II of RussiaSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Vladimir LeninSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph StalinSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky
Gísli Fannar GylfasonSelf - Former NFAI Director
Erlendur SveinssonSelf - Former Gosfilmotond Curator
Pyotr BagrovSelf - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Mikhail ZharovSelf (archive footage)
Czar Nicholas II of RussiaSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Vladimir LeninSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph StalinSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky
