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.
- genus: Documentary, History
- Studio: Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures
- keyword: propaganda, cinema on cinema, found footage, russian history, portrait of an artist, soviet union history
- cast: Gísli Fannar Gylfason, Erlendur Sveinsson, Pyotr Bagrov, Михаил Жаров, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Vladimir Lenin
