When the Earth Trembles

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 seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation...

The Red Army squadron is trying to escape from the enemy while carrying a huge load of rare furs to be sold abroad.

Stuck due to bad weather at a tiny Far Eastern airport, several random travel companions become witnesses of an amazing meeting. As it turns out, one of the passengers was brought here not by chance. He is the son of an American pilot who ended up at the airfield during the war years, which was built to transfer planes from Alaska to Russia. And here he meets a woman who saved his father's life forty years ago.

A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, including many who resisted the takeover.

The family history (1917-1941) of a hereditary steelworker who began his career before the revolution at the factory of the German industrialist Heitel.

Eduard Avdonin, a sable fur specialist, is murdered in Siberia, in one of the fur reserves. The case is assigned to senior investigator Dagurova of the prosecutor's office. She rejects one suspect after another. Having found out that the deceased was a poacher, Dagurova soon comes to the conclusion that the murder was committed by the director of the reserve Gai, who organized the illegal sale of furs abroad. Now the lives of the investigator and witnesses are in danger.

A simple story about a son returning home...

In order to stay in Moscow, biologist Pyotr Severin began working in the field of statistics. An unloved activity gave rise to self-doubt and disappointment in life. One day, a famous scientist and relative who came from the Far East offered him the position of head of an environmental laboratory. Peter agreed without hesitation. And later, having headed the local biological station, he entered into a serious conflict with the local timber industry...