Fitil

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 (1962) – 2008 (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.

It was called "the anecdotes from the Soviet government" in the USSR.

List of episodes

Number	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
		Covered

See also

• Yeralash, another Soviet popular TV series for children
• Multiplikatsionniy Krokodil

References

• Shuplov, Aleksandr (25 August 2005). ""Фитиль" становится союзным" (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
• Gamov, Aleksandr (10 September 2013). "Степашин посоветовал Голиковой возродить киножурнал "Фитиль"" (in Russian). Komsomolskaya Pravda. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
• "Письмо Генеральному секретарю ЦК КПСС" (in Russian). Russian State Archive of Contemporary History. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

External links

• Big Fitil (1963) at IMDb
• Cards Don't Lie on YouTube starring Faina Ranevskaya