Emmanuil Vitorgan

Fuse

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

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Secret For a Million

«Secret for a Million» is a game show for celebrities. Guest stars win money for disclosing personal secrets. Guest has to answer 10 hardball questions from the host. The last question is the hardest one and a truthful answer will be awarded by 1 million rubles. Only the most honest and brave of the guests dare to answer it telling the ugly truth they hid from their fans for years.

Poor Nastya

Poor Nastya is a Russian telenovela originally aired from 31 October 2003 to 30 April 2004 on the STS. Based on the imperial setting of the 19th century, the series reached international success and was shown in Ukraine, China, Israel, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria and more than twenty countries worldwide. With the budget of $11,8million, it is the most expensive Russian television project of all time. The sequel was planned, but had not been made yet.

Hello, Andrey!

Guests are invited to the studio to have conversations with Andrey Malakhov, where they talk about their personal and professional successes, as well as anything else that interests them. Through these open discussions on air, viewers get a complete impression of the guest's life and their perspective on various issues.

Beyond Death

Few days before his retirement, an experienced chief investigator gets assigned a new case, where a corpse mysteriously disappears from the morgue. The mortician swears that the man, killed by a train while saving a woman’s life, just got up and left. The woman happens to be a well-connected neuroscientist and she wants to know what happened to her rescuer. The elderly detective and the young doctor make an unlikely duo and their terse relations often get in the way of the investigation. But to get to the truth they have to work together. Intricate plot lines mix three different stories that unravel the mysteries of hundreds of WWII soldiers’ deaths, and even a terrorist plot.

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Russian Rollercoasters

Children of Arbat

Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov, a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova, grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.

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Black Room

The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.

Morozov

Nikolay Morozov has been both a revolutionary and a terrorist in his long life. Sentenced to a lifetime of hard labour, he spent 30 years in a tsarist prison. His hair had long turned grey by the time the Second World War broke out, but when he realised his country needed him he volunteered for the army. Nikolay was 87 at the time.

Operation Righteous

A corner of Hell hasn't been meeting its quota of damned souls, so Lila, a beautiful female demon, is sent to corrupt a moral man by making him irresistible to women. But Lila hadn't counted on falling for him herself.

Filatov

Dr. Filatov, a first—class gynecologist, a favorite of women, but at the same time a faithful family man, is suddenly abandoned by his wife. Trying to fill the void created by her departure, Filatov begins to look for a new love. But the more he gets to know the woman, the more he realizes that his wife is absolutely perfect and she must be returned at all costs.

You Can't Wait

A young fraudster Vitalik gets to work in a nursing home to hide from his pursuers. He treats his job only as a way to ride out the storm and earn extra money from the elderly. Soon Vitalik realizes that the residents of the nursing home are real old robbers with incredible destinies. Gradually, he changes his attitude towards these people. From perceiving them as "obsolete material", he gets into their views on life, experiences, understands that in their hearts they continue to be young, just like him. Now he wants to be needed and change his life, although it will cost him dearly.