Zinovi Vysokovsky

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".

Old Songs about the Main Thing

На углу, у Патриарших

The Alive and the Dead

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man.

Schweik in World War II

Based on the satirical anti-war comedy of the same name by B. Brecht.

Inspector General

The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol.

Little Comedies in a Big House

Theatrical movie based on an ordinary life of an average soviet family

Foam

A play staged by the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire based on S. Mikhalkov's play of the same name. The hero of the play - the head of one of the scientific institutes Makhonin, surrounding himself with sycophants, becomes on the dishonorable path of "buying" the finished dissertation....

Two Maples

About how Baba Yaga turned the children of Vasilisa the worker into two maples and about maternal love that defeated evil forces.

A Mystery Known to All

Children from in a summer camp decided to invite a group of famous actors to visit them.

Алиса в Зазеркалье

There Will Be A Movie!

A documentary film about the work of stuntmen and camera operators in Soviet cinema, using the film "White Sun of the Desert" as an example.

Once More About Love

For the first time, Natasha saw Elektron Yevdokimov at the Polytechnic Museum, where she came with Feliks. Then she really liked the confident speaker. Relations with Feliks didn't work out, and Natasha, leaving home, became a flight attendant — that is what she called her new profession. Once in a cafe, before the next flight, Natasha saw Yevdokimov. They met and began to meet. They experience their feelings for each other in different ways. By the power of her love, Natasha makes Yevdokimov understand what love is.

Old Songs about the Main Thing 2

Alice Through the Looking Glass

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.