The village detective : a song cycle
During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance. Unlike the film find explored in Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time, it turned out this discovery wasn't a lost work of major importance, but an incomplete print of a popular comedy starring beloved Russian actor Mihail Z̆arov. Does that mean it has no value? Morrison thought not. To him, the heavily water-damaged print, and the way it surfaced, could be seen as a fitting reflection on the life of Z̆arov, who loved this role so much that he even co-directed a sequel to it. In The Village Detective: a song cycle Morrison uses the story as a jumping off point for his latest meditation on cinema's past, offering a journey into Soviet history and film accompanied by a gorgeous score by Pulitzer and Grammy-winning composer David Lang.
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Victoria | Available |
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Subject |
Motion pictures > Russia > History. Russia > History. |
Genre |
Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Historical films. Video recordings. |
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Physical Description
videodisc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher [New York] : Kino Lorber, [2021]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a documentary film in 2021. Wide screen. Bonus features: three short films by Bill Morrison: Buried news (2021, 12 min.), Let me come in (2021, 11 min.) and Sunken Films (2020, 11 min.); trailer. GMD: videodisc. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director, Bill Morrison. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Mihail Zarov. |
System Details Note: | DVD, wide screen. |
Language Note: | English or Russian dialogue; English subtitles. |