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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".
At the beginning of the 1941 war, a young talented artist Igor and his theater were evacuated to Tashkent. Here he meets music teacher Olga, who is seriously ill with malaria. Igor understands that only treatment in the capital will save the girl. But they are allowed into Moscow only on special passes. And then Igor almost by force drags Olga to the registry office. Feeling responsible for the girl, Igor begins to patronize her more and more...
A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.
A good girl, Luda, under the patronage of her father, works in a trade mission and studies in absentia at the Faculty of Economics of a Siberian university.
Fyodor Stepanovich, the head of SMU, once discovered his striking resemblance to an auxiliary worker, Petya. It turns out that the latter had always been jealous of the boss and dreamed of taking his place. Fyodor Stepanovich, completely overwhelmed with work, decided to meet Petya's needs.
"Horror" film about the harsh lives of the children living in an outwardly prosperous orphanage. When a young boy dies during a clandestine mutual drug-taking session, his accomplices unsuccessfully try to hide his corpse to evade punishment, and then the orphanage management tries to hush up the whole affair to keep up appearances.
A police detective is trying to find a murderer who uses a new recently developed drug for his crimes.
Dmitry Ivanovich Kurochkin receives a vacation trip to Crimea and sets off with his wife. But before leaving, he makes a list of 32 possible emergencies that could happen to their apartment. Even while on holiday, he can’t relax — his thoughts are all about home and the lightning rod he might have forgotten.
A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world. Can he endure the frequent bullying that occurs at his new home?
A young and lazy man becomes a guardian of an old lady.
On the wedding day, the groom has a fire. The house in which the young people were supposed to live and all their property burns down. In difficult times, Gosstrakh comes to the rescue by paying large monetary compensation to the injured newlyweds...
Fedor Ivanovich purchased a Moskvich. Together with his wife, he was planning to go to a picturesque lake in the Moscow region. On the way, we picked up my mother-in-law in a new Moscow district and left the car at the entrance. Suddenly, shouts were heard from the street: “There’s an accident!” Fyodor Ivanovich, feeling cold, leaned out of the window and was stunned - his car was crushed by a dump truck...
Andrey Krutitsky is investigating the case of the strange suicide of a young mother. Before slitting her wrists, she strangled her son Kolya with a pillow. After talking to the investigator her lover also commits suicide. By then Andrey understands that he has encountered something abnormal, inexplicable and scary.
A young engineer named Zotov has been appointed head of the 406th picket line at the construction of a railway line in the taiga. The construction workers huddled in a smoky, dark dugout did not welcome the new foreman very cordially: not everyone can do hard work and household disorder. But the day came when the builders occupied the house they had built themselves, and Zotov had a double holiday — the bride arrived. And again it's weekdays, and again the cold barracks is full — a new batch of builders has arrived.
