Fuse

Overview

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".

Details

Status

Ended

First aired

June 4, 1962

Last aired

August 3, 2008

Episodes

2,201

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm,Gorky Film Studios,Rigas Kinostudija

Creator

Sergei Mikhalkov

Homepage

Official site