An Old Acquaintance

Igor Ilyinsky reads Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s stories “The Death of an Official”, “Over Salted”, “The Orator”, “The Night Before the Trial”, “The Daughter of Albion”, “Boots”, “Chameleon”, as much as performing a wide variety of characters.

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".

A young man from a poor family, Egor Dmitrievich Glumov, motivated by ambition, wants to make a career. He deftly flatters, hypocrites, and obsequies, skillfully exploiting the weaknesses of his patrons, and secretly ridicules their stupidity and vulgarity in his diary.

A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

A man invites people to a dinner party, but a dream and his forgetfulness get in the way.

Raisa Gurmyzhskaya is a former beauty who is spending her widowed years in a remote province of Russia. After her friend's young son comes to visit her, she finds herself bored enough to embark on an affair.

A short movie based on Anton Chekhov novels.

A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.

History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.

The film uses fragments of feature films and materials of the Gosfilmofond of the Russian Federation. In addition to the actors listed above, the following actors tell about the composer: directors Grigory Alexandrov and Ivan Pyriev, songwriters Mikhail Matusovsky and Vasily Lebedev-Kumach.

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

The priests, stock market officials, and police conspire to squeeze income out of pilgrims come to see relics of a Christ like figure. A pair of con men try to pass of a resurrected saint.

Goga is a Russian man who has no luck with women. He has a chance meeting with Mary Pickford, and after she kisses him on the cheek, he becomes as irresistible as her.