
Acting
Georgiy Shtil
Born
1932-03-04 (94)
Place of birth
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
75 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
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Investigator Tikhonov
2016
8.1Russians will survive everywhere. And in the desert, and at the bottom of the sea, and in America. They will learn everything and they can teach the Americans a lot ... For example, how to catch criminals. Russian investigator Andrei Somov fell in love with an American dancer and moved with her to America for permanent residence. He wanted to work in the police, but he was not hired. Therefore, he has to wash dishes, look after the sick, clean, wash, walk other people's dogs, cook. But his dream of becoming a detective is coming true: he becomes the best detective in Los Angeles. Each episode of the film has its own plot.
Russians in the City of Angels
2003
7.1In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.
Empire is Under Attack
2000
6.6The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experienced boxer, able to deal with several opponents with his bare hands. In addition, he is an excellent marksman. Considering Holmes a genius, the doctor decides to tell the whole world about his talent and the mysteries he revealed in his stories, where he often embellishes the events («the true story» of which the series presents). Watson is taught to embellish events by the editor-in-chief of the «Morning Chronicle».
Sherlock Holmes
2013
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Killing Power
2000
Film credits
2020s · 5 titles
NRMitya, a recent high school student, dreams of fame, but has no idea what price he'll have to pay for it. A random car accident, captured on a cell phone camera, makes him a hostage to a frantic media frenzy. He's caught in the maelstrom of political games and becomes a tool for garnering millions of views for his talk show. However, even this isn't enough for the media. Mitya tries to escape this cycle before he's buried in the news feeds.
I Wish You Glory
2026
6.3Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force.
Bender: The Beginning
2021
NRThe protagonist of the novel is a woman. The main theme is freedom. At the very beginning of the play, Vera Pavlovna utters a text that becomes the manifesto of her life: “I want to be free, I do not want to be indebted to anyone, I do not want anyone to tell me: you must do this for me! I want to do only what I want. And let others do the same; I don’t want to demand anything from anyone, I don’t want to restrict freedom and I want to be free myself. ”
BDT Digital: What To Do?
2020
NRIn a cruel turn of fate, Mac, a high-end necktie, is thrown in the trash. There he meets others in a similar predicament: a broken vase, an air freshener bottle, a boot with gum stuck on its sole, and a spool of thread down to her last bit of thread. Mac believes that he is better than this riff-raff and dreams of regaining his former life. The others want to reach a place called Paradise, thinking that's where they can make their wishes come true-and if you're stuck in a dumpster, you probably have something to wish for.
Tied Up
2025
3.0The inhabitants of the St. Petersburg communal apartment are not relatives, but just neighbors with their habits and dreams. They are given the opportunity to part, and then they understand how much they value each other.
Golden Neighbors
2022
2010s · 1 titles
2000s · 2 titles
1990s · 6 titles
6.0After Semyon helps a man commit a crime, he learns the gravity of his actions and decides to go to jail. But he chooses to get imprisoned in the Netherlands to get some comfort.
I Want To Go To Prison
1998
5.4A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.
Crazies
1991
5.8A Russian town is terrorized by a monstrous vampire, named Upyr. Upyr turns everyone into a slave, then kills. Even the Russian Mafia boss is killed, and others are in fear, because Upyr cannot be killed by a bullet. Only one fearless man brings hope to people. He sets up a trap for Upyr, by using the Mafia boss's daughter as bait.
Ghoul
1997
3.3A high-rise building's residents and firefighters who arrived to extinguish the house, which broke out from a “love” spark...
Bolotnaya Street, or the Cure Against Sex
1991
7.0In one big country there was a small village of Khlyupovo. And there lived in that village old men and old women, and small children. But one day, tired of the constant auditors and visiting bosses, the village decided to separate from the country...
The Village of Khlyupovo Secedes From the Union
1992
5.8The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions.
Hop: Exodus
1991
1980s · 15 titles
6.6Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.
The Nightingale
1980
7.01921. Three seemingly unrelated terrible events took place in a provincial Siberian town. But Chekist Kamchatov is convinced that there are links between the murders and, moreover, that in the last case, the suicide of a young security guard was, in his opinion, clearly staged...
For No Apparent Reason
1982
5.8A relations between man and woman become complicate after 20 years of marriage.
A Dangerous Age
1981
7.0Natasha, a woman struggling to find housing in a crowded resort town with her young son. She forces a stranger, Viktor, to pretend to be her husband to secure accommodation that bans children, leading to unexpected romantic developments.
Be My Husband
1981
NRA TV play based on the novel by F.Dostoevsky's "Double. The Petersburg poem". The film uses music from the works of A. Schnittke.
The Double
1989
6.5A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.
And Then Came Bumbo...
1984
7.1Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Treasure Island
1982
6.0After graduating from the institute, biologists Chernov and Bochkin go to the tundra and organize a wildlife preserve. Experiencing constant resistance from the local authorities, Chernov cannot stand the tense situation and decides to return to Moscow. Bochkin regards his friend's act as a betrayal…
That Was Last Summer
1988
NRA middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly timeless bestseller that entertains millions of viewers.
The Pickwick Club
1986
6.6A new boy impressed everybody by his knowledge during the history lesson but this impression didn't last long.
Pernicious Sunday
1985
6.0New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama.
Got Snow Maiden?
1985
10.0The war caught Pavlik and his mother far from Leningrad, where they lived. Soon they found themselves in the territory occupied by the Nazis. When his mother was arrested on the traitor's denunciation, Pavlik went on foot to Leningrad. The partisan scout Savely brought the boy to his house, and two winters later Pavel, having matured, became a soldier and returned to Leningrad with a partisan supply train.
Through the Fire
1982
10.0Anna Alexeyevna, once married not for love, had long since come to terms with both her boring husband and her unhappy life. One day, her husband brought a guest into their home — a landowner named Pavel Konstantinovich Alekhin. Anna Alexeyevna immediately felt a kindred spirit in him...
The Story of a Love
1983
10.0A young taxi driver comes across a profitable business: to drive a new Volga to the Caucasus. Having deceived his boss, he arranges for a few days at his own expense and goes on a trip. On the way, risking his life, he saves a bus with children from a disaster, but at the same time the Volga receives serious damage.
Simultaneous Exhibition
1982
7.7Once upon a time, a young and cheerful painter named Makar was invited to the king's palace... There he saw a beautiful woman trying on a crown. Makar fell in love, but was expelled from the palace. After undergoing all kinds of trials and heroic deeds, the former painter came to the palace to ask for the princess's hand in marriage, but saw before him a capricious ugly woman—and realized that he had been enchanted by the servant Katya.
The Tale About the Enamored Painter
1987
1970s · 17 titles
7.2The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Siberiade
1979
6.6Before a New Year evening Masha and Vitya decide to go to the forest full of fairy tales creatures.
New Year Adventures of Masha and Vitya
1975
6.0In 1922, in a small town, the boys formed a pioneer squad and named it "Red Bees."
Red Bees
1972
5.5A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
The Prince and the Pauper
1972
7.0The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Soviet partisan detachment and died, performing a responsible mission. After many years, her companion in guerrilla warfare, Lyudmila, was able to realize their common dream — to climb to the top of Mount Rübezahl.
The Road to Rübezahl
1971
7.2German intelligence is sending a terrorist group to the Soviet Union in the beginning of WWII.
According to the Criminal Investigation Service...
1979
7.0Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Three Men in a Boat
1979
3.8In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.
Trust
1976
5.2A music teacher is trying to organize a choir in the school he works in.
A Teacher of Singing
1972
6.0The film raises acute issues in construction, where, back in the 1970s, all the social shortcomings of large-scale but short-term production projects were concentrated: premature completion of projects, mismanagement, weak control, theft, and fraud.
Feedback
1978
5.8Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.
The Property of Republic
1972
9.0A circus arrives in a provincial town. Without any malicious intent, the local kids steal a trained bear named Gavrila from the circus to set him free...
Wild Gavrila
1976
6.2The basis of the film story is the creation of a talented football team by a coach, its participation in a qualifying match, and preparation for the World Cup.
Eleven Hopes
1976
NRPavel Ivanovich Shumov is a public assessor of the court, an engineer, and a good family man. At the next court hearing, some circumstances of the defendant’s life convince the hero that this is his son. Shumov is looking for the defendant’s mother and, not recognizing her as the woman he once loved, returns home...
Biographical Fact
1976
5.2This is a last of 3 movies about 3 friends (the other two are "Kortik" and "Bronzovaya Ptitsa"). The gang has grown up and in this movie they discover and help to stop criminal activity on the factory and in their neighborhood.
Last Summer of Childhood
1975
7.5The construction crew led by foreman Kuznetsov worked efficiently and in perfect coordination. This was largely because the foreman had a talent for teaching, which greatly helped him connect with the younger workers. But then, a newcomer arrived—someone who refused to adapt to the rest...
An Unknown Heir
1974
6.2The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science...
Open Book
1974
1960s · 14 titles
5.2As a rule, a person’s life is a swimming flowing from one to another. Radically changes the direction of this size. In an ambulance, he was riding a bus and met a beautiful stranger. They turned out to be Alexandra Nikolaevna, he - Alexander Nikolaevich, lost in the crowd. The outstanding geophysicist, the husband of Alexandra Nikolaevna, did not go on another expedition, stayed at home with his wife, arranged for himself “a day of happiness,” and lost his job ...
A Day of Happiness
1964
5.7The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
Intervention
1968
7.1A fairy tale film about the clever tightrope walker Tibule, who fights alongside the armorer Prospero and all the working people against the tyrants, the three Fat Men, who rule the state until the young heir Tutti comes of age. The freedom fighters are aided by the kind Dr. Gaspar and the brave acrobat girl Suok, who has to pretend to be a doll to sneak into the palace and free Prospero.
Three Fat Men
1966
6.4Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.
A Very Old Story
1968
7.1Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII.
Mercy Train
1965
6.2A high-schooler named Valentin Kuzyayev is invited to appear on a TV show about youth. When he is given a questionnaire, Valentin finds himself unable to answer the simplest questions. To sort himself out, he starts to keep a diary.
Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin
1968
Based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
The Trial
1968
5.0Wife of the Red cossack Yakov Shibalok turns out to be a spy of the Whites, as she confesses to him during childbirth. Now Yakov is faced with a difficult choice between revolutionary duty and love for his wife. Based on short stories by Mikhail Sholokhov.
A Tale of Don
1964
NRA television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in his position as Russia's ambassador to Tehran.
The Death of Vazir Mukhtar
1969
5.2A brief encounter between two strangers, Victor and Lena, who meet on a bus. Victor, a performer traveling with an acting troupe, and Lena, a young woman on her way to visit her father, spend a day together, drawn to each other despite their different paths.
A Long Happy Life
1966
NRTractor driver Pronka Lagutin comes to the city. Meeting the director's assistant unexpectedly turns into an invitation to him to play the role of a rural guy who moves to the city. Pronka rehearses with pleasure, but realizing that staying means never seeing her native village again, she runs away from the director.
Vanya, How are You Here?
1969
NRNurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.
Conscience Doesn't Forgive
1964
7.2Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a difficult task. The audience knows the plot in detail. Winged phrases have long gone to the people. Everyone has their own idea of the main characters. In general, dissatisfied will be sure. So the version of "12 chairs", proposed by Alexander Belinsky, of course, will not suit everyone.
12 Chairs
1966
5.2Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have been lost.
The Serf Actress
1963
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
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Investigator Tikhonov
2016
8.1Russians will survive everywhere. And in the desert, and at the bottom of the sea, and in America. They will learn everything and they can teach the Americans a lot ... For example, how to catch criminals. Russian investigator Andrei Somov fell in love with an American dancer and moved with her to America for permanent residence. He wanted to work in the police, but he was not hired. Therefore, he has to wash dishes, look after the sick, clean, wash, walk other people's dogs, cook. But his dream of becoming a detective is coming true: he becomes the best detective in Los Angeles. Each episode of the film has its own plot.
Russians in the City of Angels
2003
7.1In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.
Empire is Under Attack
2000
6.6The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experienced boxer, able to deal with several opponents with his bare hands. In addition, he is an excellent marksman. Considering Holmes a genius, the doctor decides to tell the whole world about his talent and the mysteries he revealed in his stories, where he often embellishes the events («the true story» of which the series presents). Watson is taught to embellish events by the editor-in-chief of the «Morning Chronicle».
Sherlock Holmes
2013
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Killing Power
2000
8.0In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined.
The Strogovs
1976
8.8The adventures of detective Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
2002
7.3Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Treasure Island
1982
8.7A story about the adventures of a few young kids during the Russian Civil War.
Makar - Pathfinder
1984
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Братва
2005
8.0The film takes place in Moscow in 1925, during the New Economic Policy (NEP). The three main characters - Misha, Genka, and Slava - have grown up and become Komsomol members. A murder occurs in their courtyard: engineer Zimin is shot dead at night. The prime suspect turns out to be a local hooligan. But Misha refuses to believe him completely and tries to find evidence on his own.
The last summer of childhood
1975
NRFor 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.
For the Rest of My Life
1975
5.8Soviet live-action film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, aired once in 1991 by Leningrad Television and then thought lost. It was rediscovered in 2021. It includes scenes of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wight omitted from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
The Keepers
1991
NRA TV play based on the novel by F.Dostoevsky's "Double. The Petersburg poem". The film uses music from the works of A. Schnittke.
The Double
1989



