
Acting
Pyotr Shcherbakov
Born — Died
1929-07-21 — 1992-03-16
Place of birth
Pozdnyakovo, Kaluzhskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
66 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
7.6No synopsis available yet.
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
1971
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
7.8Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
Office Romance
1977
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Conscience
1974
6.8A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
We're from Jazz
1983
Film credits
1990s · 7 titles
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Detective of the St. Petersburg Police
1991
6.0Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a photographer at the beach and is an editor at the local newspaper. But he is known for an entirely other reason: no woman can resist him. Making love is a serious thing for Marat, although his adventures will make the viewers die with laughter...
A Small Giant of Big Sex
1993
NRAfter hearing some amazing stories from a storyteller, the children decide to create their own fairytale. Of course, there will be a king. And what’s a king without a queen? She’ll be there too — and she’ll even save her husband. The tale promises to be fun and playful, but unlike any ordinary fairytale.
Fairy Tale
1990
NRA light and unassuming comedy based on an anecdote: once a bottle of vodka was found in a lathe...
Damn Drunk
1991
7.0Elena Meshcheryakova is a veterinarian at an animal clinic. One day, she spots a stranger in a crowd who leaves an unforgettable impression on her. But how can she gather the courage to simply approach him and introduce herself? Fate intervenes when he shows up at the clinic, wanting to get rid of his dog. Elena refuses to put the poor animal down and instead takes it in herself. As events unfold, Elena ends up in a hospital where the head psychiatrist happens to be a friend of the man she fell for. It is he who ultimately helps her find happiness.
One in a Million
1992
7.0In the early 70-ies during the war in the middle East, the plane of the Soviet military pilot Oleg Zorov was shot down. The officer was still alive but in an unconscious state was captured. After his recovery, the Americans granted him political asylum. Twenty years Zorov, who became Alex Fred Kelly, worked for the CIA. And now, years later, he returns home, where he left his sister and beloved woman…
The Recruiter
1990
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
1980s · 24 titles
6.8A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
We're from Jazz
1983
6.7Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
Zerograd
1988
NRCentral Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was instructed to organize work to eliminate the consequences of a tornado that suddenly hit the village. She has to come to terms with the indifference of summer residents from a neighboring village, untouched by the disaster. Relying on her own experience and the will of the victims, Tretyakova will do her best...
Restricted Area
1988
7.7Due to heavy snowfall that hit the city, aircraft flights were stopped for a day. Thousands of passengers crowded into the waiting room. Working together during this difficult shift, the previously conflicting bosses of the two shifts will evaluate each other, act in concert, and each will reconsider their professional and moral positions...
Airport from the Service Entrance
1987
7.0Someone Nevzorov served in the office, did not stand out. But one February morning he heard the word “revolution” - and his life changed dramatically. He robbed an antique dealer, appropriated the title of count ... And after the revolution he ended up on the streets of Istanbul.
The Adventures of Count Nevzorov
1983
6.3A beautiful man, husband, father and worker Pavel Ivanovich Vasin got into the eye with a shard of the mirror of an evil wizard. And the world for him appeared in a gloomy light. He began to insult and offend everyone at home and at work. Anger and suspicion overwhelmed Vasin's heart.
Tears Were Falling
1983
3.7The protagonist of the film, engineer Barkasov, finds himself in ridiculous and anecdotal situations all day. He is a responsible worker, the head of a large institution and is completely exhausted from pressing urgent matters. On the advice of a doctor, his deputy bought two operetta tickets for his boss and ordered secretary Sofochka to accompany Barkasov at an evening performance...
Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov
1983
10.0Fall, 1921. Wrangel's army, defeated in Crimea after a short stay in Turkey, found refuge in Bulgaria. White Guard Colonel lives here with his son and daughter, while his wife and youngest daughter were sheltered by the family of the Bolshevik, who've been sent to Bulgaria for propaganda work among Russian soldiers.
Misty Shores
1985
5.9Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year.
The Old New Year
1980
NRThe story is about a marriage swindler of all-Union scale, who once decided to get married, and at the same time to check the profitability of his home filing cabinet, was convinced of its disorder. Upset by the failure, Gvozdev meets Zina in a bar and unwittingly finds himself drawn into the circle of misfortunes of a former variety show dancer (as she introduced herself to him).
I'm All Right
1989
7.0The events take place in the 1980s and tell about the relationship between three generations in the family of a retired general, whose grandson, having failed to enter the institute, is drafted into the army. The service on the border does not disappoint him, and the young man decides to continue the family tradition.
Inheritance
1985
NRAn engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.
The Painting
1989
6.3A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager.
Winter Evening in Gagry
1985
NRAlexei hadn’t seen his father since he divorced his mother. Before enrolling in the literary institute, the son decided to visit his father—and regretted the time he’d lost. At the time, his father flatly refused to understand him. Disheartened, Alexei left and didn’t enroll in the institute until his fourth year. Before starting his studies, the son came to visit his father again...
A Continuing Dialogue
1981
5.3Story of life of Fyodor Kuzkin, who shared all the burdens of the 30s Stalins terror and after, WW2 and post-war years.
From the Life of Fyodor Kuzkin
1989
8.0A father takes he six years old son to the nature in order to make him a real man.
The Kidnapping
1984
NRBased on the play of the same name by M. Shatrov.
So We Will Win!
1987
6.7The musical based on the famous "Puss in the Boots".
About the Cat...
1987
7.0Alla and Igor decide to get married. It is the second marriage for both of them. Resentment towards her ex-husband, who is busy with science and indifferent to everyday problems, has embittered Alla. She is sure that he and his parents want to take away her child. In her anger she does not notice that she is unfair to her loved ones and makes her son unhappy.
Time for Reflection
1983
5.9The life of the inhabitants of the veterans' house was boring and monotonous. Everything changed with the arrival of the new head physician, Varvara Dmitriyevna. Her kindness and sensitivity began to work miracles. After all, Varvara Dmitriyevna tries not only to treat the ailments of the elderly, but also to return to them their lost interest in life, the belief that one can still love and be loved...
And Life, and Tears and Love
1984
7.0Ivan Yegorovich - a front-line soldier, secretary of the rural district party committee in Siberia - receives a directive on reclamation of the area, but he believes that irrigation work will disrupt the water balance and adversely affect crops. Not having received support in the regional committee, he goes to Moscow. The second storyline is the story of Krylov's complex relationship with Seraphim, whom he has loved since childhood. Having separated for many years, fate gives them the opportunity to start all over again.
The Will
1986
9.0A savvy aeronautical engineer, unable to find a use for his talent in the design bureau, finds a job in a private workshop fixing "left" machines.
Expensive Pleasure
1988
8.7A group of "friends" are trying to solve a mysterious death of a factory director - and find the money he stole from them.
Broken Circle
1987
5.1USSR, late 80's. Kozhemyakin, the former deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, comes to Yalta for a vacation. Irina, who works as a van driver, is asked to meet him at the station. Accidental resort acquaintance unexpectedly grew into something more. Neither the difference in age, nor in social status did not become an obstacle. Irina agrees to become Kozhemyakin's wife and moves to Moscow.
Love with Benefits
1989
1970s · 17 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
7.8Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
Office Romance
1977
2.0After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Twelfth Night
1979
6.8Three Soviet prisoners of war escape from a fascist concentration camp at the end of the war. One of the guards helps them and runs with them. Many years later, this former German henchman meets one of the escapees and comes up with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe destruction of all the fugitives with whom he once escaped from a concentration camp; they abandoned him wounded during the escape. He begins to put his cruel plan into action, deciding to take revenge and thereby getting rid of witnesses to his crimes in the concentration camp...
Conscience
1974
7.3An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...
The Garage
1979
6.1Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".
Days of the Turbins
1976
NRThe characters remember their youth, which took place during the Civil War. The events of those years had a decisive impact on their lives - Kolobov became a career officer, and Svedomsky became a famous pianist.
An Evening of Memories
1978
7.3A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.
The Long Recess
1972
NRBased on the play of the same name by A.N. Ostrovsky.
A Profitable Position
1977
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
3.7The plot is based on stories by B. Gorbachev: "The Trial of Stepan Grokhot," "Birth on Cucumber Land," "The Merchant Labas," and "The Great Flood." The main circumstance of the plot is five days of blizzard that began immediately after the arrival of a new boss at the Arctic construction site. The time of the action is 1935. A new manager arrives at a construction site that is in a state of crisis.
The Ordinary Arctic
1976
NRBased on the play by Estonian playwright Hans Luik. The action takes place in Petrograd on the eve of the October Revolution.
The Star Hour
1973
6.2The film traces the path of the hero (formerly an ensign and a Knight of St. George, and then a talented commander of the Red Army) from the Civil War to the Great Patriotic War.
I, Shapovalov T.P.
1973
7.5A participant in the war with the fascist regime, a Soviet soldier Chigorin, who bravely fought in Odessa, decides to return to the black sea city and walk through the memorable places where a lot of blood of brave defenders was shed for every inch of land. On the train, a random companion of the man becomes Katya, a charming young girl who asks Chigorin to tell about those events. Going headfirst into the memories, the former soldier begins his story, in which there is a place for selflessness, friendship, mutual assistance, love and heroism…
A Train to a Distant August
1971
9.0A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.
The Lower Depths
1972
6.3A story about a married man who suddenly decides to leave his wife and marry rich woman.
The Pretty Man
1978
NRStruggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes
The Magic Skin
1975
1960s · 8 titles
7.3Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
I Am Twenty
1965
8.5The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.
They Conquer the Skies
1963
6.3The dentist of the provincial town of Upper Yamki made an unexpected scientific discovery by finding the thirty-third tooth in the patient’s oral cavity, Ivan Sergeyevich Travkin. Travkin, exhausted from pain, was taken to Moscow. Ivan Sergeyevich first becomes a patient of a madhouse (thanks to envious persons), and then — a hero of a scientific international conference and, finally, a patient of a dentist professor Bruk.
Thirty-three
1965
10.0Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.
Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait
1967
5.3A story about last three days of the PE-2 soviet diving bomber crew - the three young men about 20: a former school teacher, musician and artist. Set during WWII.
A Diving Bomber Chronicle
1968
7.7The action unfolds in the last months of the WWII in Germany. Major Lubentsova meets a military doctor Tanya Koltsova, with whom once, in 1941, they once got out of the encirclement together. After that, their paths diverged. But in April 1945, during the forcing of the Oder, they found themselves together again.
Spring on the Oder
1968
3.0The film consists of four episodes, adaptations of S. Mikhalkov's short stories "The Find," "Calm," "The Toy Director," and "Some Girl."
We Love You
1962
5.0The plot is based on the construction of a highway bridge across the Volga River in Saratov. A Moscow correspondent comes to this construction site.
A Bridge is Being Built
1965
1950s · 4 titles
5.0Soviet propaganda film about Alexei, a village boy who comes to Odesa to earn money in 1901. While still on the train, the hero gets acquainted with a young worker Mitya and witnesses the arrest of the underground leader Savva, who distributed Lenin's newspaper "Iskra". The boy quickly gets used to the city, learns that one must fight for one's rights, and becomes one of the most active Leninists in Odesa.
Pages of the Past
1958
8.0Southern seaside town. High school students Olya and Mitya met at sports classes, made friends. Suddenly the girl's mother dies and Olga, left in the care of a semi-literate aunt, decides to leave school and go to work. Mitya's family, and first of all, of course, he himself, already in love with Olya, convinces her to move to live in their house. Participation and caring attention literally returns the girl's interest in life and further studies. However, rumors spread around the school about the cohabitation of two students, and hints were made about the intimacy of their relationship. As a result, young people quarrel. But real friends and family of Mitya are trying to help the lovers sort out their feelings.
A Tale of First Love
1957
5.5Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro. They are united by the romance of the feat, the desire to always be on the most difficult and dangerous site.
The Volunteers
1958
7.0The film tells the story of Soviet soldier Mikhail Platonov, who died in a small German town in the first peaceful days of 1945.
The Day the War Ended
1959
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
7.6No synopsis available yet.
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
1971
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Conscience
1974
NRThe family of Russian intellectuals during the first Russian revolution is faced with a "cholera riot". One of the characters commits suicide, another goes mad, the third suffers from unrequited love.
Children of the Sun
1985
NRThe dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Dombey & Son
1974
8.0Winter of 1918-1919. The power in the city passes from the hetman to the Directorate of Ukraine, then from Petliura to the Bolsheviks. Turbins and their acquaintances have to make their choice. Colonel Alexei Turbin and his brother Nicholas remain loyal to the White Movement and bravely defend it, without worrying about their lives. Elena's (née Turbin) husband, Vladimir Talberg flees shamefully from the city with the retreating German troops. In this troubled time, the family and close friends gather and celebrate the New Year. A strange and slightly ridiculous person comes to visit them, a distant relative of the Turbins: Larion Surzhansky
The Days of the Turbins
1976
