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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle 2021

81 min TMDB 4.0 Documentary History

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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  • Gísli Fannar Gylfason as Self - Fróði II Trawler Crew Member
  • Erlendur Sveinsson as Self - Former NFAI Director
  • Pyotr Bagrov as Self - Former Gosfilmotond Curator
  • Mikhail Zharov as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
  • Czar Nicholas II of Russia as Self (archive footage)
  • Vladimir Lenin as Self - Politician (archive footage)

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