The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
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1hr
21mins
Directed by
Bill Morrison,
Starring
Gísli Fannar Gylfason,
Pyotr Bagrov,
Mikhail Zharov,
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
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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.
