Yuri Grebenshchikov

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".

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

Past and Thoughts

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

Special Forces Squad

Such a Short Long Life

The story of several families, starting from the pre-war years and ending in the 1960s.

Before Dinner

One day from the social and personal life of the chief engineer of the plant.

Ivan Babushkin

The series is based on the novel by A. Borshchagovsky "Sechen". About the life and work of the professional revolutionary, Bolshevik Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin.

Investigator by Profession

A locker room janitor at the train station notices that a suitcase was put in a locker by a man, but pulled out by another man. This suitcase appeared to be stuffed with money. This incident allows a police detective to uncover a huge criminal organization responsible for theft, smuggling and murder.

Flight Incident

Aviation engineer Viktor Rosanov dreams of getting behind the controls of an airplane - he is sure that this is the only way he can realize his capabilities. The plant's management sends Rosanov to the North and instructs him to prepare a new aircraft for flights. He performs the task brilliantly, and when he returns, he is appointed head of the airport and is included in the flight crew lists. But now Victor is not sure that heaven is the only way of his life.

Foreword to the Battle

The Young Mistress of Niskavuori

The most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.

Adult Daughter of a Young Man

The action takes place in Moscow, in the 70s. The characters have not seen each other for many years, but now they have met and are reminiscing about their youth, when they were students at the institute, jazz enthusiasts, and known as stylists.

Belugin's Wedding

This play is one of the repertory plays of Russian theater – in the first year of production (1878) it was on the stage of seventy provincial theaters. The main interest of the audience was the triangular relationship conceived according to the plot as the basis of a dramatic intrigue.

Even Before the War

Anatoliy Trifonov returns home after army service. He meets Raya, chairman's niece, who falls in love, but life takes its own course.

Затянувшийся экзамен

The District Party Committee nominates Klimov, the headmaster of a rural school, whose main concern was to prepare students for higher education. Previously, he had not been concerned that young people were not returning. And now, from his new position, Klimov must look at the problem of educating future specialists needed by the collective farm in a different way.