Anatoliy Barantsev

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".

Based on Finnish mythology; Lemminkäinen woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her brother to build for her a Sampo, a magical device that creates salt, grain, and gold. When Lemminkäinen fails to recover the Sampo, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness.

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The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a ten-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land series. Produced by Ekran, it is believed to have aired monthly from around December 1973 to September 1974. Because of the wicked Gingema, a young girl named Ellie and her little dog Totoshka are swept away to the Magic Country, where incredible adventures await.

A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.

In one of the Russian cities, where local tailors have long sold their fabrics and clothes from it on the market, there were overseas merchants who arrived on an expensive and beautiful boat. Quite quickly, they settled in the shopping aisles and began to attract customers and lure them with their goods.

A chicken dreams of becoming a rooster.

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A celebration of the culture of the Pomors who live around the White Sea.

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Vanya has no money at all, and he gave away his last piece of clothing to save some poor animals. Now he has a cat, a dog, and a snake living in his house. But it turns out that the snake is the king's daughter, so she gave him a magic ring as a gift for saving her. Now Vanya can wish for anything he wants, and his wish will come true!

A modest earthling, Korneliy Udalov, finds himself on a planet that is a large concentration camp, where the entire population works in prison, and only one tyrant is free.

A little piglet named Foontic ran away from his owner, Mrs. Belladonna, because he didn't want to deceive children. Mrs. Belladonna is determined to find him.

Cartoon about how a brother and sister, not wanting to learn, make a wish that everyone they talk to forget about their duties. The magician from the firm "Miracle" fulfils their wish: mom does not go to work, the policeman does not punish violators, the driver does not observe traffic rules, the fireman does not put out the fire.

Professor Mintz invents a drug that accelerates plant growth many times over. However, he did not take into account that plants and fruits decay and die just as quickly.

About how the evil and greedy owner of the department store "Tears of a Child" Mrs. Belladonna tried to steal away escaped Foontic from the clown Fokus-Mokus.

Animated adaptation of Kir Bulychyov's sci-fi short fiction.

After being hired as a temporary substitute for an experienced pedagogue, a young maths teacher has to find common ground with a precocious group of sixth graders.

A musical revue with the participation of famous artists based on the short stories by A. Agranovich, M. Pavlova, K. Ryzhov, S. Gradzenskaya, M. Gindin, G. Ryabkin, E. Kapchinsky, L. Felika. The movie consists of twelve musical, lyrical, comedy and dance short stories. In addition to the artists, the film also involves: the Bolshoi Ballet, a group of mannequins, musical ensembles.