The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

Name: The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Director: Bill Morrison
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2021
Rating: 4
Cast: Gísli Fannar Gylfason, Erlendur Sveinsson, Pyotr Bagrov, Mikhail Zharov, Czar Nicholas II of Russia

4/10

2021

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.