
Acting
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Born — Died
1938-11-24 — 2016-03-03
Place of birth
Moscow, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
69 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
6.6The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.
Yeralash
1974
7.6No synopsis available yet.
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Old Songs about the Main Thing
1995
8.2After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
1979
7.9A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
7.5A company of swindlers is creating a school of nannies and teachers to provide “educational” services to the population. The company's employees are exclusively homeless people from the area of three stations, subordinate to the foreman. The people chosen are very diverse, and a decent legend with recommendations is composed for each one. Thus, the scammers not only deceived gullible citizens who fell for the advertisement, but also quite realistically solved the problem of the homeless by providing them with food and a roof over their heads.
Bringing Upside Down the Life
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Game of Love
2000
3.5Prosecutor decided to celebrate his jubilee on a grand scale, which, by the way, coincided with the New Year. There were a lot of invitees - the apartment was full. The toastmaster of the evening bravely managed his duties. Numerous guests were delighted: from the artists led by Santa Claus to the cheerful mother-in-law. But it had to happen that no one knew where the keys to the armored entrance door disappeared. Here we go!
Prosecutor's Jubilee
2003
1990s · 15 titles
5.5Based on a true story, this horrifying tale follows two orphaned friends as they struggle to survive during World War II.
Red Cherry
1995
8.0A US mother goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that the Russian Tsar left to her peasant father 70 years ago when the Russian Revolution hit, but the egg got lost in the commotion.
My Family Treasure
1995
5.4A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.
Crazies
1991
6.0Once the actor Rebrov flatly refused to participate in an obscene performance and flew, as they say, out the door. When he came home and found out that his family was going to be replenished, the exemplary family man was not upset, but organized a cooperative "Sibiryak", where lonely childless women were guaranteed the appearance of beautiful babies. Assistant Rebrov became Vovik also an actor-loser. Hopeless drinker and completely indifferent to the female sex, the fat man will be very talented to play the role of a psychic as long as the "Siberian" does not attract the attention of the racket and until a sweet woman with a dream to give birth to a son from a psychic appears in his apartment.
Alphonse
1993
5.5An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place on New Year's Eve 1997-1998, 24 years after the events of the movie. According to the plot, the main characters (Shurik, Bunsha, Zina and Ulyana Andreyevna) are going to celebrate New Year's Eve, and the engineer Alexander Sergeyevich Timofeev (Shurik) decides to present his recreated (and modernized) time machine to the guests. Having gone to the XVI century, they find there an aged Georges Miloslavsky, who has been sitting as regent for 25 years instead of Ivan the Terrible, who has run away; the Tsar was so inspired by the profession of Zina and Yakin that he decided to try his hand at filmmaking and went to "Mosfilm" instead of the Tsar's chambers. In an effort to correct the disruption of the course of history, the heroes re-engage the time machine and travel back to the 1970s in search of the Tsar, who dreams of becoming an actor.
Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
1998
5.9When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
1993
4.9An old tamer uncle Vasya with an old bear Gosha and their friends manage "Russian safari" for strangers where the bear must stay alive.
Russian Business
1993
4.3Rich Italian Luciana Farini goes to Russia to her ancestral homeland, where she wants to bury her beloved dog. A light detective intrigue, the absurdities of Russian life and love at first sight.
Moscow Vacation
1995
4.7A young master, Vladimir Dubrovsky, comes to the estate to visit his father, who has long been in litigation with his neighbor, the despotic landowner Troekurov. Having seriously insulted Dubrovsky Sr., Troekurov tries to go to peace, but the proud old man is adamant.
Vladimir Dubrovsky: The Noble Robber
1990
7.0No synopsis available yet.
По ком тюрьма плачет...
1991
5.9Is it easy to be a walking corpse? How do you spend a half a million dollars? Can you fall in love with the same bride twice?
Children of Monday
1997
NRCriminal bosses who live by the law of the jungle divide their spheres of influence. Where millions are at stake, human life is worth nothing.
Ka-ka-du
1992
NRThe heroine informs both lovers about her pregnancy in order to determine by their reaction how serious the feelings of each of them are.
Don't Ask Me About the Thing
1991
8.0The priceless treasure “The Golden Phallus” - a unique work of art of the ancient civilization of the Indians of South America - turned out to be in a bizarre way in Russia during the time of Peter the Great. These days, he was captured by a criminal Moscow group ...
In Search of the Golden Phallus
1992
NRThe popular pop show club “Odessa Gentlemen” took part in writing a script on the topic: how to leave the former USSR. Odessa became an arena where the interests of Soviet intelligence and the last Jew who had not yet left for their historical homeland collided...
Once Upon A Time in Odessa, or How to Leave the USSR
1992
1980s · 21 titles
5.2Nothing is easy for Torik, a shy orphan adopted by his aunt and uncle: he struggles to fit into village life, learn a craft, or find a wife. When Torik does fall in love – with Anjel, a local prostitute – he must face down the disapproval of his narrow-minded community and assert his right to happiness.
A Piece of Sky
1980
Peter Petrovich Belkin, a lazybones, drifts from one job to another in search of a "cushy job." Eventually, he ends up in a workplace where his colleagues decide to teach the slacker a lesson...
Wherever You Work...
1987
4.2The film is based on Sergei Narovchatov’s poem. Vassily Buslayev is an epic Russian hero who rose to defend the freedom and independence of his people. The strength and power of this son of a Novgorod governor, his friendship with simple folk enraged and scared the rich, fat merchants of the city. When they learned that the young man was setting out on a march to save his native land from the enemy, they couldn’t be more happy: how could he defeat a foe so mighty! But Vassily overcomes all intrigues and brings his expedition to a victorious end. He returns home a hero, and not alone but with a sweetheart. When a threat of enemy invasion again looms over Novgorod, people come and beg Vassily to defend their native land.
Vasiliy Buslaev
1983
7.3A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.
Evenings on a farm near Dikanka
1983
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
7.3Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
The Pokrovsky Gates
1983
7.1Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.
Along Unknown Paths
1982
5.7The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
1989
7.1Mr. Johnny First goes to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph, and the lives of everyone in the frontier town of Santa Carolina change as a result of this.
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines
1987
6.5Defeating the terrible dragon, the soldier Ivan returns from the war. The Far Far Away rejoices. The king, also Ivan, is very pleased. He awards the namesake with an order with pearls, appoints a field marshal and offers his wife his own daughter Maria Louise. But the soldier suddenly refuses everything.
One, Two - Woe, Never Mind!
1989
6.0The plot is based on the true facts of the heroic defense of Odesa during the Second World War. The first series, based on documentary material, is a series of events related to the defense of the city. The second series consists of individual novels dedicated to some of the characters in the film, which features 210 characters - bright characters of Odesa residents. The heroes get to the front line by tram, while the enemy is firing at the city with direct fire.
The Feat of Odesa
1985
10.0Divorced Maria and married Ofelia work as ladies' masters in a Moscow hairdressing salon. Ofelia often complains to her friend about her philandering husband. Maria has no one to complain about - she lives alone and is not bored. To reconcile Ophelia and her husband, Maria often visits Ivan at the zoo, where he works as a zookeeper, and gradually becomes attached to him. The sedate and positive Maria has much more in common with Ivan than the capricious and flighty Ophelia.
The Beauty Parlor
1986
6.0In the vestibule of one of the train cars Moscow-Dushanbe found the corpse of the passenger. Two random travelers - police officers Denisov and Kurbanov - have to conduct their investigation in very difficult conditions...
The Extra Arrives on the Second Path
1986
5.4Shahjada Ijjat Beg comes to India with his caravan and settles in a town in Gujrat. Here he falls in love with Sohani, who keeps a shop in metal pots. Ijjat Beg buys pot from her with whatever money he had and they were attracted to each other. Sohni dispensed with her servant and kept Ijjat Beg instead. This gave them more opportunity to meet. This was a scandal in the town and Sohni was perforce married to Rehaman who was slightly off his head. Sohni continued her meeting Ijjat Beg who went out fishing. When the atmosphere became to hot for them they jointly took a water grave for their love.
Sohni Mahiwal
1984
6.7A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
After the Rain, on Thursday
1986
NRA musical and television performance film dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the children's film magazine Yeralash.
What is Yeralash?
1986
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Right People
1986
8.5The story is about a factory guy, a young worker Volodya Kalinin, who decided to get a summer job at a pioneer camp as a counselor to "earn some money", and at the same time to relax. But the new case required a lot of effort from him, pedagogical imagination, skill, in short, there was no time for rest. As a result, mutual understanding and true friendship with the guys arose.
I Promise To Be!
1983
NRNot as she would like, a young woman’s New Year’s evening is taking place: the appointed date did not take place, and the whole night ahead. By chance, a stranger appears in her house. The good prince takes her far to the sea, and the plot of the Christmas tale repeats. But here the heroine is again alone, although still in the grip of memories of the past day.
Zigzag
1980
4.7The reason for serious reflection by the staff of one of the typical enterprises in the country was the lack of powder necessary for production and the money to purchase it. The employees came up with a reason to get money from the director’s fund. Having issued a loan for a fictitious marriage between the only man in the department and an unmarried employee, the team thereby organized a completely happy marriage...
Loan for a Marriage
1988
6.6After meeting Tamara during the long trip on the train Sergey decided to pose as Tamara's husband in front of her parents.
Married Bachelor
1982
1970s · 14 titles
7.9A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973
7.1A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
The Red Snowball Tree
1974
6.1Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad Wolf, along with friends Rassul the Lynx and Petrika the Donkey has made a plan to kidnap the children while their mother is away. And when the eldest child, Matei, decides to disobey his mother and visit the fair himself, things start to go badly for the goat-family.
Mama
1977
8.1Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
1979
7.6A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
12 Chairs
1971
5.7An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.
Nylon 100%
1973
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
7.3The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
It Can't Be!
1975
7.0The heroes of the film are first-graders Snezhana and Alyosha Seroglazov, who received the nickname "TwoBriefcases" because of his small stature on the first day of attending school, as well as a small puppy Kysh.
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
1974
6.0A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
Incognito from St.Petersburg
1978
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
В стране ловушек
1975
7.6The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.
Au-u!
1976
6.0The misadventures of a cheerful inventor begin when he crashes his motorcycle into a long pipe being carried by workers.
Nerves... Nerves...
1972
1960s · 4 titles
5.9Mini-series set in times of WW II about Soviet underground fighters led by brave Anna Morozova. They are establishing connection with Polish people who work on German airfield. And even small victories cost a lot sometimes.
We Are Taking All The Fire
1969
5.5A drama about the group of young people starting their adult lives.
Collegues
1962
5.9A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.
Operation 'Trust'
1968
6.8Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. In reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks.
The Marriage of Balzaminov
1964
1950s · 1 titles
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
6.6The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.
Yeralash
1974
7.6No synopsis available yet.
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Old Songs about the Main Thing
1995
8.2After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
1979
9.0The series is about the operation code-named "Trest", which under the leadership of F.E.Dzerzhinsky was carried out by the VChK to identify and eliminate the counter-revolutionary and monarchist underground on the territory of the USSR, associated with foreign white-emigrant organizations.
Operation 'Trust'
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Мастер и Маргарита
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
В стране ловушек
1975
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



