Fitil

Fitil (Russian: Фитиль, IPA: [fʲɪˈtʲilʲ], Fuse) is a popular Soviet short film and television magazine series which ran for 608 issues. 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 "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 go away from fishing. His wife says him, that in active, which was held in his absence, he was called "fool". Tyutiryutin calls to all his subordinates, to know, who was calls him "fool". In the end, he hears, that he was called "fisherman", but not "fool"...	Sergey Mikhalkov	Igor Ilyinsky, A. Kol'chaty				Igor Ilyinsky, Olga Viklandt	Mosfilm
		Task	School task about "eyewash"	Leonid Lench	Lev Kulidzhanov, Isaak Magiton				Muza Krepkogorskaya	Cinema studio of Gorkiy
		Beet	Short animation about beet		Vyacheslav Kotenochkin (?)					Soyuzmultfilm
		Alive corpse	Two men pretend dead, to doesn't pay alimony payments	Mark Abramov	Andrey Tutyshkin	Vladimir Nikolaev	Georgy Kolganov	Nikita Bogoslovsky	Sergey Filippov, Evgeny 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 Lubeznov
		People's rubles	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				Efim Berezin, Yury Timoshenko	Souzmultfilm
		Without thinking twice	About dismissive treatment with ancient monuments in Vitebsk	Yuri Egorov	Yuri Egorov	Yuri Egorov				CSDF (?)
		Revanchist	Anti-fascist cartoon	Mark Abramov, Sergey Mikhalkov	Vyacheslav Kotenochkin					Souzmultfilm
		Covered

See also

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

External links

• Fitil official site (in Russian)
• Bolshoy fitil/Big Fuse (1963) at IMDb
• Cards Don't Lie on YouTube starring Faina Ranevskaya