Svetlana Karpinskaya

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."

A murder just happened and it seems the answer is simple on who and how did it. But a casual talk between suspect's mother and prosecutor sets a different point of view on a just opened case.

Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he meets Klava, who works in the apiary. And far from being on official business, the engineer remains on the collective farm.

Rare materials go missing from the archive. A conflict arises between two researchers—Ozerov and Rozhkin—over these missing materials.

Cheerful, cheerful youth are famous everywhere for their ditties: mischievous and lyrical, thoughtful and sad, perky and poignant, they sound everywhere from early morning until late at night. Who composes them?..

The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress.

Five sad and funny romantic stories about love...

Musical TV show based on "Naughty tales" by Josef Lada.

A telefilm about how a common cause and a dream helped classmates living by the sea find friendship...

The amusing adventures of the young builder Pasha Gusarov began from the moment when he met and fell in love with Katya on the train, who was going to conquer Moscow. Happiness makes a person careless, and the station is just the place where you can lose it. But it is at the station after all kinds of adventures that they meet again and now they will never part.

A televised play based on the work of Bertolt Brecht.

In the small town of Krutovo, three friends live — Mitrya, Andrian and Lenka. From the director of the Museum of local lore, the children learn about the theft of the portrait "The Old Man with a Candle" from the museum collection of Prince Meshchersky. The valuable painting is somewhere in the city. The guys are starting the search...

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

A story about life and love of a young girl Anna who moves from her village to a big city.

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".

For four years, a “train of mercy” travels the roads of war, evacuating the wounded from the front lines. Bombings, blood, death, and brief moments of respite bring together the people who are saving the lives of strangers. They all become one big family.