The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)

Director: Bill Morrison
Cast: Czar Nicholas II of Russia, Erlendur Sveinsson, Gísli Fannar Gylfason, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Zharov, Peter Bagrov, Vladimir Lenin

Synopsis:

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister containing four reels of The Village Detective ( ), 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.