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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- Released
- Production
- Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures
Keywords
- propaganda
- cinema on cinema
- found footage
- russian history
- portrait of an artist
- soviet union history
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Top Cast
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
Czar Nicholas II of Russia as Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Top Crew
Bill Morrison · Director, Writer
David Lang · Composer
Maria Vinogradova · Producer
Madeleine Molyneaux · Producer
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