Village Detective

Village Detective (Деревенский детектив)  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.

Later on the screens came two sequels: Aniskin and Fantomas (1973) and Aniskin Again (1978).

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Mikhail Zharov as Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin, rural district and a police lieutenant
 * Tatyana Pelttser as Glafira Aniskina, his wife
 * Natalya Sayko as Zina Aniskina, their daughter
 * Lidiya Smirnova as Yevdokia Mironovna Pronina, rural shop clerk
 * Roman Tkachuk as Gennady Pozdnyakov, head of the club
 * Nikolay Skorobogatov as Ivan Ivanovich, chairman of the kolkhoz
 * Georgy Slabinyak as Vitaly Pankov
 * Anatoly Kubatsky as Ivan, an old farmer
 * Vladislav Balandin as   Rafail
 * Yuri Chernov as balalaika player Stepan
 * Irina Zarubina as milkmaid Praskovya Pankova
 * Maria Vinogradova as strict mother

Awards
The film won the award for Best Comedy at the All-Union Film Festival in Minsk.