Fitil

Template:Infobox television Fitil (Template:Lang-rus, 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 , 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, Template:Ill	Mosfilm
		Task	School task about "eyewash"	Template:Ill	Lev Kulidzhanov, Template:Ill				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	Template:Ill	Template:Ill	Template:Ill	Template:Ill	Nikita Bogoslovsky	Sergey Filippov, Yevgeny Morgunov, Lubov Sokolova	Template:Ill
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?	Template:Ill, Sergey Mikhalkov	Template:Ill				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	Template:Ill, Sergey Mikhalkov	Template:Ill, Vladimir Popov				Template:Ill, Template:Ill	Soyuzmultfilm
		Without thinking twice	About dismissive treatment with ancient monuments in Vitebsk	Template:Ill	Template:Ill	Template:Ill				CSDF (?)
		Revanchist	Anti-fascist cartoon	Template:Ill, Sergey Mikhalkov	Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin					Soyuzmultfilm
		Covered

See also

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

External links

• Big Fitil (1963) at IMDb
• Template:Trim Template:Replace on YouTube starring Faina Ranevskaya

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