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.

Documentary History

Gísli Fannar Gylfason

(Self - Fróði II Trawler Crew Member)

Erlendur Sveinsson

(Self - Former NFAI Director)

Pyotr Bagrov

(Self - Former Gosfilmotond Curator)

Mikhail Zharov

(Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage))

Czar Nicholas II of Russia

(Self (archive footage))

Vladimir Lenin

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Joseph Stalin

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Leon Trotsky

(Self - Politician (archive footage))