| Fitil | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Anthology, Comedy |
| Directed by | Various, including Leonid Gaidai |
| Composer | Nikita Bogoslovsky (for some episodes) |
| Country of origin | Soviet Union, Russia |
| Original language | Russian |
| No. of episodes | 608 |
| Production | |
| Running time | Varies by episode |
| Original release | |
| Network | Russia-1 |
| Release | 1962 – 2008 |
| Related | |
| Yeralash | |
Fitil (Russian: Фитиль, IPA: [fʲɪˈtʲilʲ], Fuse) is a popular Soviet short film and television anthology series which ran for 608 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. Fitilyok eventually became an entirely separate show for children and was renamed Yeralash, (Russian: Ералаш) meaning "jumble" or "mishmash."
It was directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov to the cast.[1]
It was called "the anecdotes from the Soviet government" in the USSR.
| Number[2] | Year | Plot | Description | Author and editor | Director | Cameraman, soundman and film editor | Artist | Composer | Actors | Studio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1962 | In one boot | "Head of city pensioners" Tyutiryutin goes on a fishing trip. On his return his wife tells him, that in a meeting held in his absence, he was called a "fool". Tyutiryutin calls all his subordinates together, demanding to know who had called him a "fool". In the end he learns that he was called "fisherman", and not "fool". | Sergey Mikhalkov | Igor Ilyinsky, Arkady Koltsaty | Igor Ilyinsky, Olga Viklandt | Mosfilm | |||
| Task | School task about "eyewash" | Leonid Lench | Lev Kulidzhanov, Isaak Magiton | Muza Krepkogorskaya | Gorky Film Studio | |||||
| Beet | Short animation about beet | Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin | Soyuzmultfilm | |||||||
| Living corpse | Two men pretend to be dead, to avoid having to make alimony payments | Mark Abramov | Andrey Tutyshkin | Vladimir Nikolaev | Georgy Kolganov | Nikita Bogoslovsky | Sergey Filippov, Yevgeny Morgunov, Lubov Sokolova | Mosnauchfilm | ||
| 3 | 1962 | Ears | The head of the department makes a meaningless tirade about "if only there were mushrooms growing in your mouth" and what happens from this. His "efficiency" and "initiative" are noticed. They pull him up by the ears. Now he's a deputy manager, and his ears have grown. Again he is pulled up, he is already a manager with even longer ears. Then he delivers his meaningless speeches from a high rostrum, and his ears are very long. Who's pulling him by those ears? | Leonid Likhodeev, Sergey Mikhalkov | Andrey Tutyshkin | Ivan Lyubeznov | ||||
| People's rubles | A steel plant in Cherepovets receives equipment that is not used | L. Pankin, Sergey Mikhalkov | L. Pankin | L. Pankin | CSDF (?) | |||||
| The virus of indifference | About problems of growing corn | Vladimir Kapninsky, Sergey Mikhalkov | Vladimir Pekar, Vladimir Popov | Yefim Berezin, Yury Timoshenko | Soyuzmultfilm | |||||
| Without thinking twice | About dismissive treatment with ancient monuments in Vitebsk | Yuri Yegorov | Yuri Yegorov | Yuri Yegorov | CSDF (?) | |||||
| Revanchist | Anti-fascist cartoon | Mark Abramov, Sergey Mikhalkov | Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin | Soyuzmultfilm | ||||||
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