Yakov Segel

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".

The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand... Based on Jules Verne novel.

Extraterrestrial Girl visited Earth. Inventor Blinkov fe in love with her. His love has awakened in her new emotions and feelings but she realized that Blinkov can not live in a different world.

Genka Sakhnenko, a seventeen-year-old boy, has been passionate about pigeon breeding since childhood. But he begins to make a living, falls in love with the girl Tanya and realizes that it is time to leave his childhood hobbies.

The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters.

One day, doctors Speransky and Nikulin made an outstanding scientific discovery: they discovered the bacillus of indifference and ignorance. To describe its action, one of them selflessly instills it in himself.

A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...

A musical comedy about one day from the life of five year old Petya's grandfather.

The film tells the story of Soviet soldier Mikhail Platonov, who died in a small German town in the first peaceful days of 1945.

The first story takes place in February 1945 in Budapest. In the basement of one of the houses, a platoon commander named Kapustin — a former circus performer — meets a Hungarian actor who doesn't speak Russian. Yet they quickly find a common language. The clown Karandash appears in the story. The second story is about a grandmother who didn’t like the circus, but went there for the sake of her grandson…

1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into a common communal apartment. The children grow up, and they and the adults around them are looking for their place in life, looking for answers to the questions of who to be and what to be, quarreling, making peace, building relationships, destroying them. Six years later, the peaceful lives of characters, with their joys and misfortunes, quarrels and reconciliations, and complex personal relationships, are blown up by a war that connects everyone at once, forcing them to see the meaning of their days, their attitudes to each other and their life values in a different way. For some of them, war is a fatal trait.

In the city hairdressers' school there are exams. The incapable pupil Kukushkina, having spoiled everything on the head of the next client, asks her suitor - the stylist Edik - to sit in her chair. In love, Edik agrees, and says goodbye to his stylish coke for a long time.

During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.

About the first school day of the first-grader Vitya Sinitsyn, who withstood with honor all the trials and vicissitudes of fate that befell him on this special day.

During the WWII, fter leaving the hospital, a young lieutenant spends a few hours in Moscow, in the house where he spent his childhood and youth.

Nadya Vakhmistrova, the daughter of a collective farmer from the Volgo-Don agricultural artel, works honestly and conscientiously on her collective farm. But then, like all the young people in the country, she hears the news: the party is calling on young men and women to develop virgin and fallow lands. Nadya, a member of the Komsomol, believes that her place is where the party calls her. But her beloved, Grigory, the collective farm foreman, does not share this decision. He is overcome with doubts: is it worth leaving his native village if he is needed here on the collective farm; wouldn't it be better to get married and build a personal happiness here? But Nadezhda is adamant. She leaves, leaving Grigory behind...

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A propaganda film aimed at American audiences during the early years of the Cold War.

The late stages of World War II, Soviet Army began rolling into some vital cities which occupied by Germany. Kolya Isaev, a paratrooper is sent to take part the offensives in the Eastern Europe. Autobiographical story by director Yakov Segel about a young man who went to the front of the Great Patriotic War at a young age and reached Berlin.