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".
Russian scientists have created an android policeman. Perfect in all respects, Captain Anna Nikolaevna Korolkevich goes to serve in a provincial city to see real life and become a human. Colleagues think that Anna Nikolaevna is the daughter of the deputy minister, and nothing portends trouble until humanization goes too far.
Ivan Ivanovich Zhurov — unlucky, but very experienced detective. He travels everywhere on his old "Pobeda", one brings up a daughter, loves to drink and has very troubled amur relations with his colleague. All this does not prevent him from masterfully disclosing the most complex and tangled loud criminal cases, for which, besides him, no one more risks to take.
MUR's investigator, Colonel Alexander Khlystov, receives an old photograph in the mail: it shows Yesenin, who has just been taken out of the loop. According to the rules, the investigator must give the case a legal course.
MURA operative Konstantin Troshin returns from the front after the victory in the Great Patriotic War and finds out that he no longer works in the police. The reason is a conflict with an influential general of the NKGB of the USSR. But Troshin cannot imagine his life without the police. He manages to get a job as a precinct officer in the most disadvantaged area of Moscow — Maryina Grove.
Yaroslavl, 1974. Two high-profile and violent crimes are taking place in the city. The investigation is being handled by the uncompromising investigator for particularly important cases of the prosecutor's office, Egor Tabolin. The threads of these crimes lead to one person — the head physician of the psychiatric hospital, Mikhail Nagornykh, and his deputy Vaganov, in whose hospital several mysterious deaths have occurred in recent years.
18th century, The Russian Empire. The series tells the life story of Darya Saltykova, who was called Saltychikha by serfs. The landowner brutally tortured about one and half hundreds peasants, for which "Russian Elizabeth Bathory" was imprisoned at underground prison, where she spent 33 years until her death. How a young girl who was brought up in a monastery turned into a monster?
The series tells about how police officers, investigating the case of robberies and murders in hotels, managed not only to neutralize, but also to expose major plunderers of socialist property.
Terminally ill surgeon Kirill finds a job in a clinic where doctors struggle with supernatural phenomena. The only way to survive is to show his best side and convince the new management that the hospital needs him. Kirill plunges into the intricacies of the relationships of people, witches and demons, increasingly doubting that he is able to correctly determine who exactly represents good and who is evil here. The diagnosis is imperfect, and the enemy may be someone who initially did not seem to them. To avoid such mistakes, Kirill and his colleagues will have to spend a lot of time studying the circumstances of patients' illnesses.
A young surgeon accompanies a group of communists from the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic secretly carrying a letter to L.I. Brezhnev in 1972. The story, which changed the fate of a nation, is based on true events.
Once met, Alice and Kostya at first sight understand that they were born for each other. However, along with the love of their lives come problems: at work, at home, with health. Exhausted Alice goes to the astrologer and hears the sentence: they can not be together with the Kostya, otherwise they are waiting for the fate of losers and premature death. Alice does not believe in prediction, but trouble continues. Heroes are young, ambitious and want to be successful and happy. Alice and Kostya break up. Years later, they have everything but love…
Sasha and his girlfriend Lisa have decided to travel to Venice after they graduate from college, but Lisa's parents have different ideas. They are hoping to secure a prestigious job for their daughter by introducing her to an influential family friend - Leonid Yakovlevich and his son Igor.While Lisa continues to prepare for her trip, she begins to spend more and more evenings with Igor, and, even though the tickets have already been bought and Lisa is packing her suitcase, a call from Igor changes her plans - Ten years later, Igor and Lisa are married with a daughter while Sasha has become a successful lawyer, but when Sasha and Lisa meet one day at a college reunion, it is obvious that the passion between them has never gone away.
In a small town, Nina Antonova works at a garment factory. She is not a particularly modern young woman — modest, romantic, and trusting, despite having been deceived by men more than once. Nina has a fiancé whom she loves deeply and for whom she is ready to go to the ends of the earth. For his sake, she quits her job at the factory and even sells her house. But at the last moment, the weak-willed young man is taken away from his bride by his parents. The betrayal destroys Nina’s former innocence. Her friends sincerely try to help the unhappy girl move on — inviting her to gatherings and introducing her to “promising” suitors. But Nina no longer trusts anyone. She has come to believe that princes no longer exist and that all men are irritating. Most of all, the tenant whom the factory director has arranged to stay in her house…
A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.
An ordinary family - Sergey, Lena and two children - are experiencing another family crisis. Love has cooled down for a long time, the couple forgot what they were striving for, and most importantly, they no longer remember why they were together. Misunderstanding and understatement in the family leads to the fact that Lena begins to suspect her faithful of virtual treason - too much time Sergey spends on the computer in the Internet chat. To return her husband, Lena goes to Chat under the guise of a 20-year-old girl. Sergei, who does not suspect that this is his wife, completely forgets about the existence of the real Lena. A virtual romance is already threatening to break up in a real family, but the case intervenes ...
Жизнь Виктора Бузова сложилась на первый взгляд удачно: благополучный брак, отличная работа. Однако эта жизнь кажется Виктору скучной, и вот уже полгода он ездит в Нижний Новгород к своей любовнице – молодой красивой девушке Марине.Чтобы оправдать свои частые поездки Виктор выдумывает для жены легенду: якобы в Нижнем Новгороде живет его друг детства, которому постоянно нужна помощь. Чтобы не запутаться в своих собственных фантазиях, Виктор заводит тетрадку, куда записывает все о своем воображаемом друге.Однако мир, придуманный Виктором, оказывается не безобидным. Тетрадку крадут, и незнакомый человек – Максим - поселяется в квартире Виктора под видом друга детства Николая Снегирева.
In the dead of night, three sorcerers meet on the outskirts of Moscow. They have been forced to work against each other for a long time. The conflict, which involves the best witchcraft forces of the capital, is a banal love triangle. Alexey is an enviable man and earns well, his wife Masha, a complex and insecure young woman, has long lived only in the interests of her family, and her lover Irina will stop at nothing in order to take her place.
A major politician and businessman was killed. His widow, with the help of a private detective and a photojournalist, begins her own murder investigation. She learns not to trust anyone, especially her friends. The only one she trusted is a strange young man with paranormal abilities who promises to protect her and find the killer. Now Nelya is in real danger...
Once, in search of creative freedom, jazz musician Yitzhak Gutman went to Germany, where he became a famous impresario. When changes took place in the USSR, the hero decided to help talented musicians-losers who remained in Russia. Returning to his homeland, Yitzhak found composer Amir Dzhunusov performing his jazz improvisations for the flute on the roofs of houses. Together with his Russian friends, the hero, in the interests of advertising, starts a risky game, which leads to a tragic development of events. In the role of Amir Dzhunusov is a professional trumpeter, composer, jazz musician Andrey Solovyov.
The film tells about the fate of the brilliant Russian poet Alexei Koltsov, who so romantically sang the nature of Rus', the incomparable beauty of Russian women, the incomprehensible mystery of the Russian soul.
A certain Kostyleva, who was fired (cut) from her job, threatens to commit suicide. Her colleague suggests cutting him. The self-sacrifice was misunderstood by the wife of this employee. Out of jealousy, she decides to leave her husband and leave home. And he suddenly finds out that a grandfather is coming from America to visit, whom (what if he is a millionaire!) must be greeted properly - it is not every day that relatives come from the USA. The grandfather arrives in an antediluvian car to "die cheerfully" in his homeland, in Russia. They bought a coffin and a plot in the cemetery, but problems arose with death. It turned out that life is just beginning. It was in vain that the grandfather gave all the money to a sanatorium for homeless dogs.
After the theft from the monastery of a priceless relic, the shroud of Alexander Nevsky, the thief-recidivist Vasily, nicknamed Pegiy in a dream from the past, is the Grand King himself. Far from sin, he decides to return the relic to the monastery, not suspecting that he had already signed the death sentence ...
A young couple, not wanting to, faced the fact of having a baby. They are offered to sell it to a rich childless family. Deceived by her lover, the mother agrees, but dies during childbirth. New parents receive the coveted son, and the father of the child goes abroad. Years pass and dad returns.
American journalist and former military cameraman Bruce receives a task: to bring unique film material from Makombo Island about golden eagles abducting children. But, as it turns out, he is not the only sensation hunter. Together with journalist Zhannette and former "Afghan" Pavel, they penetrate the protected island...
The Chernomorsk city is preparing to hold a holiday of laughter. Come here popular actors of theatre and cinema. Local cultural activist Alex Muromtsev brings guests into a luxurious country house that was once the dacha of Stalin, and has no idea that Stalin was already waiting in the chambers…
The hero of social drama, a young prosecutor, is engaged in repressed cases in the mid-50s. Behind each of the fabricated charges is a human tragedy; together they form a monstrous picture of lawlessness triumphing in the country. However, there are other laws - the laws of conscience, which no power can not cancel and destroy ...
Dangerous criminal Bovarin found and raised an orphan Asya. The girl worships her savior, for her sake she is ready for any crime, even murder. By chance, she met with motorcycle racer Danila and fell in love with him. Love changed her character, forced to rethink the whole past life. But it’s not so simple when money is involved ...
The film takes place in a small southern town, the main problem of which is the lack of uninterrupted water supply. The young deputy chairman of the city executive committee proposes to speed up the construction of a water pipeline by passing it through the village of Shanghai, which was arbitrarily built up by people, thereby depriving hundreds of families of shelter...
The body of a young woman is found in a construction quarry. The deceased is Vera Topilina, secretary to the head of the Main Directorate, Menshutina. Moscow Criminal Investigation Department inspectors Vasilyev and Losev investigate the causes of the woman's death. Ultimately, the investigation leads the operatives to major players in the shadow economy.
