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.

• Hypnotic Pictures
• Picture Palace Pictures
• Gísli Fannar Gylfason
• Erlendur Sveinsson
• Pyotr Bagrov
• Mikhail Zharov
• Czar Nicholas II of Russia
• Vladimir Lenin
• Joseph Stalin
• Leon Trotsky