Viktor Khalatov

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".

A youth brigade at one of Kyiv's factories is competing for the title of Communist Labor Brigade. They are assisted by an old worker, Yakov Sereda. However, two people actively interfere with the Komsomol members: the rogue Yevgeny, who pretends to be a self-taught inventor, and the careerist engineer Kamensky...

Lyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, where her incredible positivity and fiery personality charm everyone around her.

Soviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Ekhert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of eastern worker slave labor in occupied Ukraine. Ekhert (Fedotov) enters into a partnership with a German entrepreneur who's son, Willie, is a high ranking Nazi. Together they go to Vinnitsa, Ukraine and start a factory. Fedotov begins seeking contacts with headquarters, but faces problems when a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator manages to infiltrate the Soviet partisans.

A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII.

Students Galya and Sergey want to marry. In the civil registry, they are given a month's time, as stipulated by law. The young people quarrel, reconcile and quarrel again. On the last day of the probation period, the couple come to the registry office to pick up their applications, and leave it in the company of satisfied friends and indignant parents, having become husband and wife.

A modest girl, Nastya, who recently came to one of the largest silk factories in Ukraine, fell in love with the foreman and motorcycle racer Gnat Kolyada. After leaving the beautiful Hannah, Gnat proposes to Nastya — and soon the brigade celebrates the wedding. After the birth of their son, the young family begins to experience the first difficulties: Nastya finds it difficult to cope with school, work and household, and Gnat finds solace with Hannah. But the brigade is on Nastya's side. And so, when Gnat leaves the family to sort out his own feelings, the funny Antoska settles into their apartment...

A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kiev. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and on the efforts by the Germans to force the reopening of a local munitions factory.

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Engineer Stepan Mitin, having arrived in Kiev on business, accidentally gets to the performance "Ukrainian Ballet on Ice" and falls in love with the soloist Viktoriya Chaika. Delighted with the prima, Stepan doesn't notice that the draftsman Varya is working with him on the refrigerator project — the same girl to whom in the evenings he unsuccessfully tries to convey a bouquet of flowers with a note. The business trip ends — and Stepan, collecting in Primorsk, invites Varya to his plant. They agree to meet at the airport, but on the way, the ballet administrator intercepts the girl. Stepan flies away alone. One day, the Ukrainian Ballet on Ice comes to Primorsk. Stepan Mitin, the best refrigeration specialist, is asked to help create artificial ice. Stepan gladly accepts the offer and soon meets Viktoriya Chaika...

In 1905 Germany, Evgeny Narezhny, a talented bridge engineer and son of a Russian émigré, rejects lucrative offers to serve Russia. Arriving in St. Petersburg during the 1905 revolution, he focuses on science, believing it can solve global issues, unlike his Bolshevik wife, Elena Chernova. As a renowned scientist, Narezhny is repulsed by capitalism and is forced to reconsider his views on the revolutionaries’ struggle.

Andrey Yarchuk, the foreman of the collective farm construction team, leaves for the city after Marinka, who was sent by the collective farm to study at an agricultural institute. After learning that the villagers are mocking Andrei, Marinka is transferred to the correspondence department and returns to the village. However, pride does not allow Andrey to return. Lovers will have to go through many adventures before they meet in their native Kohanovka.

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The story of a playful and curious black kitten, who lived with a selfless and kind doctor. One day the little prankster broke a lamp. He was genuinely sorry about what had happened and wanted to correct the situation. Going out on the balcony, he saw a light in the distance and thought it was the lamp, which could replace the host's spoiled one. The kitten bravely went through the dark streets and trails.