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(water splashing)
(machine whirring)
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Dah.
(water bubbling)
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There actually were four rolls
of 35 millimeter films.
And I was hoping this was something very old
because they looked old.
What I started doing is I put newspaper on the floor
and then I started unwinding the films.
There were a lot of rust on the reels.
We had to scrape that rust away.
There's still some brown dust in the films.
You can have a look at them.
(clicking)
What is...
Is this?
What is this?
(TV static)
(banging)
Well, I would say that Zharov was obviously
one of the most popular actors of the Soviet era.
Both in theater, most in film of course.
He was known by 99 percent of the population of this country.
And now if we're talking about Hollywood
it's the level of popularity of Humphrey Bogart
or Clark Gable.
This scale.
The highest award in Russia
was People's Artist of the USSR.
And he got this in 1949.
You can more or less easily spot out, let's say,
a dozen films out of the, whatever, 50 or 60 that he made
where he is really acting.
And when there was a strong director's hand
like the hand of Eisenstein, for example, in cinema
then he was different and very different.
This film was supposed to be a rehabilitation
of Stalin's violence so that there is violence
but it is needed for the sake of,
you know, having a strong country.
So Stalin was in favor of the film,
or the first part of it and then the second part,
that's exactly where Zharov appears,
this is a film about how cruelty
can only give birth to cruelty.
And that it is impossible to stop
even if the purpose is noble.
And how the Tsar eventually becomes a maniac
and a character that Zharov is playing
is his main weapon, should we say, his axe.
For the first one, they all get a Stalin Prize.
When Stalin saw the film, the second part was banned
and there was a third one which was never completed.
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(laughing)
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He had three Stalin Prizes
all in the '40s.
So, this was his position by the end of the '40s.
At the beginning of the '50s, there was a very famous
anti-Semitic campaign, Case of Doctors.
And his wife was Jewish,
and her father was a very famous physician,
and it was one of those who was accused
as having a plot against a group of Soviet authorities.
Nothing horrible happened to him.
He was never arrested, he was never, you know,
kicked out of his theater, but this was not
the best time for a career.
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Zharov was getting older, and so what was left
are those comical parts,
more or less repeating his clichés.
The Village Detective, or the Rural Detective,
for many a symbol of this downfall,
and a film which was, I would say, despised
by the critics and by the general cinephiles, right?
But, loved by the audience,
and it was very successful at the box office.
So successful that Zharov eventually made
several sequels to the film,
and was playing the same part for almost a decade.
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Ah.
You know, when I heard about the reels being found,
I was expecting a lost silent masterpiece,
and not a film which we have in our collection
on camera negative on which has been shown
on television month to month.
(overlapping remarks)
(whirring)
I think that was probably just on a ship,
and probably a Russian ship.
Almost every big ship had some kind of a projector
and a little collection of films,
which was, you know, exchanged once in a while.
So, I guess these several reels
were from one of those ships, which were, for example, torn,
or for some reason were not really watchable again,
and they were just dumped one way or another.
I know it's a strange way of disposing film,
but who knows?
And in the net,
there were almost four reels together
in one haul.
That's also a miracle.
Maybe the reason might be that the Russians,
they kept their film reels
in a certain can.
It could have been protected in this can
for many years on the bottom of the sea
if it fell from a ship above.
Then, this metal starts to rust.
And the strange thing is that the metal rusts,
and then you have this celluloid
in a certain condition which you can handle.
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Across the field
I hear.
The bluebirds calling
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Across the field
I hear.
Thunder.
Across the field
I hear
I hear the wan cry.
Across the field
I hear.
The bluebirds calling.
Across the field
I hear.
The darkness.
Across the field
I hear.
The crow call.
Across the field
I hear.
The wind fly past me.
Across the field
I hear.
The drums.
Across the field
I hear my friend
I hear him calling.
Across the field
I hear his voice
I hear him calling.
Across the field
I hear the drums.
Calling.
Across the field
I hear the field.
Calling me.
I cross the field.
I cross the field
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