Natalya Ostrikova

A “hunt” has been launched against the crime boss known as Antikvar by foreign creditors from Italy, Japan, and America. The security team decides to find a double for their boss and publicly put him in harm’s way. The choice falls on the young actor Vanya Lucky. Lucky is offered the chance to “star in a Hollywood blockbuster.” It seemed that everything was going according to plan. But who would have thought that representatives of the criminal world could find themselves in such absurd, sometimes tragicomic, situations by relying on an eccentric artist who is lucky even in the most hopeless situations.

A retired air force colonel comes on summer vacation to the Crimea. He comes as a non-official holiday-maker, so the main problem is to find night quarters. There is a brim-full of holiday-makers here at holyday season, and for locals the main business is to rent a bunk. And if one also manages to make money on sending pears, apples, grapes, the whole winter will be supported. Thus many locals survive, others become callous, cynical cold fish, concerned only about gains. Anna Ivanovna, the flat owner, renting a bunk to the colonel, starts reminding of the latter. Looking over a photo in a hall, the colonel suddenly recognizes himself in youth with a friend, who died of consumption and who turned out to be the Annas son.

Strategical factory should be evacuated. The movie shows how destinies of those working on the factory and their families are being broken. And yet - they have no choice, but to live.

A story about how children from the different countries can be united with the help of music.

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".