
Acting
Roman Tkachuk
Born — Died
1932-08-31 — 1994-01-10
Place of birth
Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Yekaterinburg, Russia]
Known for
Acting
Credits
58 titles
Known for
7.6Fitil 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".
Fuse
1962
NRFun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map.
Tales of Keshka and His Friends
1975
7.4The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970
7.9In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.
Heart of a Dog
1988
6.0The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a ten-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land series. Produced by Ekran, it is believed to have aired monthly from around December 1973 to September 1974. Because of the wicked Gingema, a young girl named Ellie and her little dog Totoshka are swept away to the Magic Country, where incredible adventures await.
The Wizard of the Emerald City
1973
7.0Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970
Film credits
1990s · 4 titles
NRAbout what Minka and Lelya saw during their walk, trying to sell the galoshes that belonged to the guests of their parents to the rag picker.
The Package
1990
5.4An ordinary family is a faithful wife, a walking husband. One night, Victor tells his wife that he is an alien and disappears. For a long time, the inconsolable Lucy waited for the return of the faithful, until one day she met a man in the subway who, like two peas in a pod, looked like Victor.
My Husband Is an Alien
1990
NRCo-operator Konstantin, returning from a business trip, finds a stranger at home. As it turned out, his friend gave the keys to Kostya’s apartment to his fellow students who were supposed to get married. But the bride Svetlana was late in the registry office, and the jealous bridegroom parted with her without hearing any explanations. Kostya allows Svetlana to stay in the apartment for a few more days ...
When You're Late for Wedding…
1991
NRA musical vaudeville based on the play of the same name in verse by I. Elagin. The action takes place in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. It is about young people, journalist Jacques and artist Claude, who find happiness after many adventures.
Portrait of Mademoiselle Targi
1991
1980s · 9 titles
7.9In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.
Heart of a Dog
1988
9.0Beginning of the 1920s. Jantai and the hero Mergen, residents of one of the mountain villages in Uzbekistan, set off for Moscow to order a monument to Lenin from a capital sculptor with the money collected by the people and to bring it back to their village. They are assisted in fulfilling the order by a homeless boy named Grishka, who has joined them in the capital.
The Oath of Jantai
1985
8.0A funny adventures of a young boy and bear cub traveling together across the USSR.
April Dreams
1980
9.0A musical screen comedy based on the French play La Cagnotte (The Piggy Bank in English) by Eugène Marin Labiche. A group of provincial Bourgeois decide to spend savings they accumulated for a year of playing cards together on a memorable deed. After humorous strategizing and alliance forming, Leonida, the unmarried sister and Blanche, the engaged daughter, of Monsieur Champbourcy, entice the group to spend the money on what they imagine a luxurious journey to a capital city. A very memorable event indeed it was.
The Piggy Bank
1980
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Unlucky Folks
1983
5.8Five best friends have only one problem to deal with: where to get something to drink...
We're Sitting Good!
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Business Trip to a Sanatorium
1981
NRPodsekalnikov is a narrow-minded person, never working anywhere and constantly scandalizing with his wife and mother-in-law, is considering suicide. His neighbor Kalabushkin decides to make money on it ...
Suicide
1989
7.0Four one-act plays by Viktor Rozov in two parts.
A Few Drops
1983
1970s · 30 titles
7.4The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970
7.0Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970
6.4An omnibus of comical shorts.
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
1978
NRIt's time for the reckless guy Simion Cook to join the army. Having joined the airborne troops under the command of petty officer Petro Golovko, who is not indifferent to music, who organizes the vocal trio "Sineva", named after the initial letters of its participants: Moldovan Simeon, Armenian Nerses and Russian Vasily. And now the day has come when a new musical director, who turned out to be a charming girl Sasha, should arrive at the military unit. Who would have guessed that after the service, Simion would return home with a pretty bride...
Between Sky and Earth
1976
5.5In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, Cipollino fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.
Cipollino
1973
6.3The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.
We Didn't Learn This
1976
6.6Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not easy to get to him: reputable diplomats, well-known footballers, and the heads of the ministry are seeking the honor to steam. But Kashkin himself does not need to achieve anything, everything is at his service — from black caviar to tickets to the conservatory. And the hero’s cloudless life would have flowed, but then his twin brother Sergei fell ill and asked Ivan to replace him in his equally strange work.
You to Me, Me to You
1977
7.0The queen of a magic kingdom is trying to marry her two daughters...
Almanzor's Rings
1977
NRA play staged by the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire based on S. Mikhalkov's play of the same name. The hero of the play - the head of one of the scientific institutes Makhonin, surrounding himself with sycophants, becomes on the dishonorable path of "buying" the finished dissertation....
Foam
1977
5.8Private Bumbarash, considered lost in the First World War, suddenly returned to his native village, where no one recognizes, because the money for the memorial service a long time ago employed for other purposes. In a country already in full raging civil war in the tiny village of power is changing every half: red, white, anarchists, gangsters, again red and white for them again, and so on to infinity ... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to arrange his life and personal happiness.
Bumbarash
1972
6.5The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”.
The Golden Gates
1971
7.3The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they are going to visit during the long-awaited two months of summer. Only Tonda is not looking forward to staying in Prague over the holidays. He brightens up after his father announces that the boy can visit some friends of the family in the village of Petipas.
Three of Us and Dog from Petipas
1972
7.3The last winter of the Second World War in the Beskids. To escape the bombing, eight-year-old Dagmar is taken by her mother from Prague to a mountain village. From there, they take the narrow-gauge railroad to school...
Vlak do stanice Nebe
1972
5.8Fun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map.
Tales of Keshka and His Friends
1974
5.8The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
1970
5.4A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.
Aniskin and Fantomas
1973
7.0Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third. But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself.
One Times One
1975
NRA family drama about life of a few children in Ukraine during thirties.
Escape from the Palace
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Somebody Else's Tracks
1971
7.0Funny adventures of fifth-grader Vitka Paramonov across different times and places.
A Step from the Roof
1970
5.2The old actor dreams of a leading role for his young talented daughter. However, she is opposed by a powerful diva of the troupe with a terrible character and great connections. After a series of efforts of the characters and hilarious misunderstandings, the old man's dream come true.
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
1974
6.0There is a noisy bazaar inconspicuous shop with a sign "Smart Things". And the goods in it completely wonderful no ordinary thing to find. Anyone who would go to the store, they can buy there thing and pay high seller does not require. That's just not everyone will be able to such curiosities to really take advantage of.
Smart Things
1973
The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring author, publishes his first poem, while the sporting career of the second "Rep", a national table tennis player, is disrupted by a maths repartee. The last "Beaver Grizzly" is a tramp more used to solitude, yet he starts a pioneer troop...
Maturita za školou
1973
4.8The servant of Count Almaviva, the jolly and joker Figaro, is going to marry the maid of the Countess Rosina - Susanne. But the count wants to upset the wedding and make the girl his lover.
Mad Day or Figaro Wedding
1974
Incredible comedy about the adventures of Oleg Popov, the Sun Clown
Sun in the String Bag
1979
NRAbout the heroism and endless devotion to the Motherland of military sailors in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.
Navy Officer
1970
5.5A musical comedy about the adventures of four friends who are trying to film a yogurt commercials.
Romashkin Effect
1973
5.3Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin.
Aniskin Again
1977
NRAndro and Sandro are two old men living in a small Ossetian village. They are also veterans of the local collective farm and best friends, helping each other in almost everything.
Andro and Sandro
1974
NRThe conflict between Professor Shcheglov and Doctor Skuratov, which began with a slap in the face.
Slap in the Face
1976
1960s · 7 titles
NRBased on the satirical anti-war comedy of the same name by B. Brecht.
Schweik in World War II
1969
5.5A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
In the Town of S.
1967
NRA story of a woman trying to find her happiness through a difficult life.
Deary
1966
4.6Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994.
Katerina Izmailova
1966
6.2Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.
The Village Detective
1969
6.9Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.
Two Comrades Were Serving
1968
NRTeleplay based on comedies by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić and combined with songs by Andrey Mironov
Two Comedies of Branislav Nušić
1969
1950s · 2 titles
NRA comedy film about young Uzbek collective farmers and sports enthusiasts. Overcoming the prejudice of the elderly, they prove by personal example that sports not only do not interfere with work on a collective farm, but, on the contrary, contribute to labor success.
Meet Me at the Stadium
1956
NRGliding competitions are taking place in one of the border towns of Uzbekistan. An unexpected typhoon blows a glider with schoolchildren Kostya and Rustam into the desert. When their glider crashed on the sand, the guys find a small Firyusa in the cabin under the seat, who really wanted to fly, but they didn't take her. The three of them set off across the desert to the Dead City.
Case in the Desert
1957
Series credits
7.6Fitil 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".
Fuse
1962
NRFun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map.
Tales of Keshka and His Friends
1975
6.0The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a ten-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book in Alexander Volkov's Magic Land series. Produced by Ekran, it is believed to have aired monthly from around December 1973 to September 1974. Because of the wicked Gingema, a young girl named Ellie and her little dog Totoshka are swept away to the Magic Country, where incredible adventures await.
The Wizard of the Emerald City
1973
NRPrivate Bumbarash, considered lost in the First World War, suddenly returned to his native village, where no one recognizes, because the money for the memorial service a long time ago employed for other purposes. In a country already in full raging civil war in the tiny village of power is changing every half: red, white, anarchists, gangsters, again red and white for them again, and so on to infinity ... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to arrange his life and personal happiness.
Bumbarash
1972
NRA second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.
Aniskin and Fantomas
1974

