Village Detective (Russian: Деревенский детектив, romanized: Derevensky detektiv) is a 1969 Soviet crime comedy film directed by Ivan Lukinsky and based on the novella of the same name by Vil Lipatov. Lyrical detective lives of rural local policeman Aniskin.
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Directed by | Ivan Lukinsky |
Written by | Vil Lipatov Irina Mazuruk |
Produced by | Mikhail Kapustin |
Starring | Mikhail Zharov Tatyana Pelttser Natalya Sayko Lidiya Smirnova |
Cinematography | Anatoly Buravchikov Igor Klebanov Vladimir Rapoport |
Edited by | Ksenia Blinova |
Music by | Anatoly Lepin |
Production company | Gorky Film Studio |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Later on the screens came two sequels: Aniskin and Fantomas (1973)[1] and Aniskin Again (1978).[2]
An accordion is stolen from a village club. For the collective farm, where an accordion is worth more than a good cow, this is a "crime of the century". When Aniskin is assigned to solve the crime, his suspicion falls on a man in love with a local store saleswoman.
The film won the award for Best Comedy at the All-Union Film Festival in Minsk.[3]
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