Writing
Mikhail Zhvanetsky
Born — Died
1934-03-06 — 2020-11-06
Place of birth
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Known for
Writing
Credits
17 titles
Known for
6.9KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
KVN Major League
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Квартирник НТВ у Маргулиса
2017
4.7Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures “Odessa Steamboat”, “Two Apples”, “Meeting at the Distillery” and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In total - 13 miniatures. The fates of the heroes of each story are intertwined, and the viewer will see a panorama of life in which the head of the transport department could not be heard, the plane’s crew wonders if passengers can land the plane, the barmaid stands at the helm of the ship, and the father teaches his son arithmetic, destroying all the apples in the house...
Odessa Steamboat
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
I Am Returning Your Portrait
1983
7.3He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.
Genius
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arkadiy Raykin
1967
Film credits
2020s · 1 titles
2010s · 2 titles
4.7Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures “Odessa Steamboat”, “Two Apples”, “Meeting at the Distillery” and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In total - 13 miniatures. The fates of the heroes of each story are intertwined, and the viewer will see a panorama of life in which the head of the transport department could not be heard, the plane’s crew wonders if passengers can land the plane, the barmaid stands at the helm of the ship, and the father teaches his son arithmetic, destroying all the apples in the house...
Odessa Steamboat
2019
6.5In the world, there is a city-port Odesa, which was specially created as a refuge for people of different nationalities and religions. Humor is a special language that helps people from Odesa to communicate and get along with each other. Legends are spreading about Odesa's humor and accent. But - a paradox - people are constantly leaving it. It is loved, but it is left as a child leaves his mother. On the example of this city and its inhabitants, we wanted to understand - why people flee from their cities. We tried to find the answer taking pictures of Odesa citizens in Germany, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, France and other places. Michael Zhvanetskij, Roman Kartsev, Leonid Barats and Rostislav Khait Victor Loshak, Oksana Fandera, Valerij Todotovskij, Mikhail and Anatoly Kontush and many others are telling their stories and giving their opinions on what is the phenomenon of the city by the Black Sea.
Into_nation of Big Odesa
2018
1990s · 2 titles
7.3He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.
Genius
1992
8.0A concert movie dedicated to the formation of the World Club of Odesa under the leadership of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. "Let many people be proud of the expanses and fields," says Mikhail Zhvanetsky himself about his favorite city, "someone falls to his favorite birch tree, thinking that it grows only here. We have the only homeland - Odesa, the only party of Odessites. Odesa is halfway around the world, from America to Australia. Odesa is a phenomenon, an Odessite is a character. Odesa was, is and will be one of the most famous cities on this temporal globe. And we, who stayed, and you, who left, will live and live with it.... Odesa is worth dedicating your youth and old age to it, and it will repay you like a native land".
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
1991
1980s · 5 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
I Am Returning Your Portrait
1983
10.0Comic stories for adults about the problems of family life.
Contacts... Conflicts... 2
1985
9.0Comic stories for adults about the problems of family life.
Contacts... Conflicts... 4
1987
9.0A satirical film for adults about communication problems.
Contacts... Conflicts...
1984
9.0Comic stories for adults about the problems of family life.
Contacts... Conflicts... 3
1986
1960s · 1 titles
Series credits
6.9KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
KVN Major League
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Квартирник НТВ у Маргулиса
2017
Behind the camera
NRBased on the humorous short story of the same name by Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
How They Joke in Odessa
1989
8.0A concert movie dedicated to the formation of the World Club of Odesa under the leadership of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. "Let many people be proud of the expanses and fields," says Mikhail Zhvanetsky himself about his favorite city, "someone falls to his favorite birch tree, thinking that it grows only here. We have the only homeland - Odesa, the only party of Odessites. Odesa is halfway around the world, from America to Australia. Odesa is a phenomenon, an Odessite is a character. Odesa was, is and will be one of the most famous cities on this temporal globe. And we, who stayed, and you, who left, will live and live with it.... Odesa is worth dedicating your youth and old age to it, and it will repay you like a native land".
How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!
1991
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Through the Pages of "Around Laughter". 1978-1980
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Roman Kartsev's Benefit
1999