Old Times Pranks

Tomorrow

Their trains were parked on opposite sides of the platform, preparing to move in opposite directions. The heroes had only ten minutes at their disposal, which played a crucial role in their fate.… The plot is based on the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

The Lower Depths

Musical fantasy based on the play by M. Gorky.

Fuse

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".

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The Laboratory

Based on the story by B.Polishchuk “The Laboratory of Voskoboinikov". Due to the need to reduce staff, the head of the laboratory, not wanting to make a choice himself, entrusts this ”slippery” task to the entire team, and he goes on a business trip. Upon arrival, it turns out that not only has no one been fired, but they have also achieved an increase in staff.

You're Happy, Zhenka!

Zhenya is divorced a long time ago, raising her five-year-old son alone, working in a clinic, and part-time as an ambulance worker. She is an optimist and doesn’t complain about life, which is why her colleagues call her happy. Zhenya's unexpected meeting with a new doctor can probably change her life a lot.

Nerves... Nerves...

The misadventures of a cheerful inventor begin when he crashes his motorcycle into a long pipe being carried by workers.

Portrait of the Artist's Wife

The events of several days spent by the married couple - artist Pavel Alekseevich and his wife Nina - in a small country boarding house. For him, this is an opportunity to collect his thoughts and finally, after many years, write a new picture. The usual life of vacationers is mushroom hikes, boat trips, a costume ball, if not for Nina’s attraction for another man...

Hitchhiking Trip

We are talking about the events of twenty-five years ago. The young Leningrad boys then went to the mythical country of Shambhala, rumored to be lost among the dazzling peaks of Tibet, somewhere between India and China. The guys wanted to see the country they had heard so much about and believed in. Perhaps it was a search for new ideas and priorities, cleansed of the myths of the past decades.

Farewell, Punks of Zamoskvorechye...

Moscow outskirts, spring 1956. In memory and soul of the sixteen-year-old hero of the movie, the son of the political prisoner, this time will remain forever. He meets and loses his first love, encounters with blunt brutality of the criminal world, to bid farewell to childhood, to regain his father...

An Emigrant, or a Beard With Glasses and A Warthog