The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
2021 | 81m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Bill Morrison |
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| Writer: | Bill Morrison |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 27, 2021 |
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| Director: | Bill Morrison |
| Writer: | Bill Morrison |
| Genres: | History, Documentary |
| Keywords | propaganda, cinema on cinema, found footage, russian history, portrait of an artist, soviet union history |
| Production Companies | Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $294,456 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 01, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| David Lang | Original Music Composer |
| Maria Vinogradova | Editorial Consultant |
| Sam Green | Editorial Consultant |
| Frode Andersen | Musician |
| Shara Nova | Musician |
| Nick Lloyd | Music Editor |
| John Somers | Sound Designer |
| Tómas Marshall | Camera Operator |
| Frikki Frikk | Camera Operator |
| Maxim Orlov | Camera Operator |
| Roman Levitskiy | Camera Operator |
| Keith Jenson | Colorist |
| Torin Geller | Sound Mixer |
| Bill Morrison | Editor, Sound Designer, Additional Photography, Writer, Director |
| Jóhann Jóhannsson | In Memory Of |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Maria Vinogradova | Producer |
| Bill Morrison | Producer |
| Madeleine Molyneaux | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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