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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)

April. 27,2021

6.7

| History Documentary

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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Cast

Pyotr Bagrov as Self - Former Gosfilmotond Curator

[2021] The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

Mikhail Zharov as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

[2021] The Village Detective: A Song Cycle [1974] Aniskin and Fantomas [1969] The Village Detective [1967] Elder Sister [1963] Cain the XVIII-th [1958] Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Czar Nicholas II of Russia as Self (archive footage)

[2018] Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution [1953] Halfway to Hell [1915] Russia's Idol

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Reviews

Linbeymusol

2021/04/27

Wonderful character development!

BoardChiri

2021/04/28

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Afouotos

2021/04/29

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Deanna

2021/04/30

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.