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.

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  Pyotr Bagrov

  Self - Former Gosfilmotond Curator
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  Mikhail Zharov

  Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
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  Czar Nicholas II of Russia

  Self (archive footage)
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  Vladimir Lenin

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Joseph Stalin

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Leon Trotsky

  Self - Politician (archive footage)