
Acting
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina
Born — Died
1941-05-17 — 1997-11-27
Place of birth
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
65 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Secrets of Palace Coups
2000
7.1A Soviet scientist creates a brilliant robot. This is a boy who is able to solve any mathematical problems, he writes the best essays and sings perfectly! And he is also an exact copy of schoolboy Seryozha Syroezhkin. A clever boy quickly shifts all his duties to an electronic double. He does his homework for him, goes to school and does household chores that his parents entrust to Syroezhkin...
The Adventures of the Electronic
1980
7.3Operatives are looking for a killer who has appropriated someone else's identity. The story of a real case based on the story of Yulian Semyonov.
Confrontation
1985
9.0Plot revolves around the post-war decades and tells about the fate of former participants of the Great Patriotic War - Vera Boglyuk, Nina Verkhovskaya, Dusya Koroleva, Zina Skvortsova and Natasha Druzhinina.
Women Who Got Lucky
1990
Film credits
1990s · 6 titles
7.7It would seem that nothing is keeping the main character in Ivanovsk, especially since her sister Tamarka has settled well in Chicago and has been calling her for a long time. But she doesn’t go to America and doesn’t even want to.
1000 Dollars One Way
1991
5.1A wealthy businessman tries to change his not so good sounding last name by marrying the heir of aristocratic family.
The Princess and the Beans
1997
6.5As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop looking for a job. However, the prospect of living at the expense of his wife and mother-in-law seems unbearable. Having reached the end of his tether, Semyon is resolved to take his own life. Based on Nikolai Erdman's controversial play.
The Suicide
1990
7.0Life in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc.
Provincial Benefit
1993
4.7The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone.
I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Love
1997
1980s · 23 titles
7.0Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie.
The Adventures of the Electronic
1980
5.5Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomic story is directly related to reality. It turns out that in order to properly fly airplanes, sometimes it is enough to fly to one chief. Of course with his seats. However, it does not prevent that the passengers themselves are very eager to go on a flight…
Time to Fly
1987
6.8The saleswoman of the village store Pasha Nikitina generously distributed all the money from the proceeds to the villagers in debt, when they were left without a salary through the fault of the Chairman. The audit appeared suddenly — and Pasha began to demand money back. Not having received debts, the heroine turned for help to her brother, who immediately responded to her misfortune: he sent money and came himself…
Insult
1987
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
9.0The movie is set in the early fifties in a provincial Uzbek town. Fear and alienation have penetrated this once cozy town. The hero of the film, teenager Alik, once witnesses a boorish act of a neighbor who made a dizzying career out of denunciations. Standing up for a helpless woman, the young hero, thereby signing his own verdict.
Savage
1989
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
7.5The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Colonel Rostanev, took possession of the souls and minds of educated, intelligent people.
The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
1989
6.5Arriving in Moscow, the young, energetic provincial woman quickly joins the circle of booksellers. Having charmed her boss, Svetik got a job in the antiquarian literature department. But soon she herself fell in love, and the gullible bibliomaniac becomes the master of her unspent energy.
Svetik
1989
7.0In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
Magicians
1982
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Solar Wind
1982
6.8An adventures of the famous movies characters in the movies archive.
A Comedy of Days Gone By
1980
5.9Peppi-the-Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's cottage Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika...
Pippi Longstocking
1984
A film about production conflicts at an automobile factory.
The Testers
1987
NRAndrei Buslai, a drunken, morally degraded man, accidentally ends up in the apartment of the writer Pokutovich, where he meets Alina and Dragun. Under the influence of these people with difficult fates, yet kind and honest, Andrei begins his moral awakening.
Threshold
1988
7.5The film's heroine, the director of a large scientific and industrial association, one day comes to the conclusion that her personal life has not worked out…
The Only Man
1981
7.0The hero of the film is Mikhail Stepchak, the foreman of a construction crew, a man with character. He wants to work in a way that is both beneficial and enjoyable. And all around there are notes and cheating. Only Stepchak won't stand it: he has a big conversation with his superiors ahead of him...
A Major Conversation
1981
4.8An actress needs to dub her voice after the production of her movie has wrapped. At the same time, she is facing a life crisis that alters her plans: just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle. Overwhelmed, she has to look at the simple task of dubbing from a completely new perspective.
The Voice
1982
9.0“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not about the "day" and its people, but about the indestructible, passionate desire of people from darkness to light, to the sun. "
Without Sun
1987
9.0No synopsis available yet.
There Was No Sorrow
1983
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Lingonberries in the Forest
1989
8.0The amusing adventures of sixth-grader Anton Murashov and his father, who were convinced that being someone else was very easy —much easier than being yourself. Anton's friend's father invents a Wish Fulfiller, and with the help of this machine, Anton and Vadim Petrovich switch places; Anton becomes a veterinarian, and his father, a veterinary doctor, becomes a schoolboy...
It's Just Awful!
1982
4.5In 1947, a post-war year, Semyon Chizhov, a student of a naval representation school, and Victoria, a young woman who works at the school as a senior pioneer instructor, meet by chance.
Viktoriya
1988
7.0In the life of every working person, one day there comes a difficult moment associated with retirement. And if this is the head of the supply department of a large plant, to whom the heroine of the film devoted her entire life, it is doubly sad.
Bouquet of Mimosa and Other Flowers
1985
1970s · 18 titles
7.0A young man Sergey is trying to find a truth about the abandoned tomb of the soldiers suddenly discovered during the building of a highway.
A Minute of Silence
1971
6.2An adult man is recalling his childhood years in North Russia during WWII.
And We Had Silence...
1977
9.0A musical revue with the participation of famous artists based on the short stories by A. Agranovich, M. Pavlova, K. Ryzhov, S. Gradzenskaya, M. Gindin, G. Ryabkin, E. Kapchinsky, L. Felika. The movie consists of twelve musical, lyrical, comedy and dance short stories. In addition to the artists, the film also involves: the Bolshoi Ballet, a group of mannequins, musical ensembles.
Yesterday, Today and Always
1970
NRThree stories about the people who live in small village in Belarus.
Neighbors
1979
5.2The film takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Rasmus is a boy who lives in a shelter. Unwilling to stay in the orphanage, he escapes and joins a tramp nicknamed Oscar Tumbleweed.
Rasmus and the Tramp
1979
7.0Funny adventures of fifth-grader Vitka Paramonov across different times and places.
A Step from the Roof
1970
NRThe most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.
The Young Mistress of Niskavuori
1979
4.8A young man discovers that his father behaved dishonourably during wartime.
Reckoning
1970
8.0A simple story of the life and love of a woman who lost her lover at the front. After a failed marriage and many years of loneliness, she finally finds happiness by meeting a man who is not only ready to become her companion, but also a friend to her adult son.
Tell Me About Yourself
1972
NRAfter traveling around the country, Alexey Krasheninnikov stayed in the city - they promised an apartment at work. But a letter came saying that the old people were sick. Alexey went home with his family and decided not to return to the city after his father's funeral...
Month August
1972
4.2The 16-year-old Tanya Canareykina decided to drastically change her life. For starters she fell in love with a pilot who played the trumpet and had sad, dreaming eyes. Because of him, she stopped seeing Misha whom she’d known since early childhood. She did like Misha, but he wasn’t romantic at all…
A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
1978
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ivantsov, Petrov, Sidorov...
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Gentlemen Who Were Unlucky
1977
5.1A few hotel guests are constantly getting into various funny situations.
Taimyr Calls You
1971
8.0TV show based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin.
The Captain's Daughter
1978
7.0Twelve years old boy escapes summer camp in order to meet his brother currently serving in the army.
Tailcoat for an Idler
1979
NRKlava Ivanova and Pyotr Spirin work in the same railroad depot. They have a strange relationship. Clava, who tenderly and devotedly loves the frivolous Pyotr, one day decides to break up with him.
About Klava Ivanova
1970
7.7Two completely different sons grow up in the same family. The youngest, Frol Kalitkin, is an exemplary seventh-grader, winner of Olympiads, the first student. And the eldest, Andryusha, is a loafer, a loafer and a dude. The “correct” Frol takes up the upbringing of his brother.
It's All About the Brother
1977
1960s · 10 titles
6.9An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.
Sovershenno seryozno
1961
5.8Based on a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant.
The Ugly Story
1966
5.8The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become a projectionist, now, once a week, brings cinema to the village of Babino, where Lyuba lives. Once they loved each other, but Nikolai, unexpectedly for everyone, married another and since then tried not to be in this village. And now feelings have surged again, and both are unable to resist this love.
Only Three Nights
1969
7.5Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he meets Klava, who works in the apiary. And far from being on official business, the engineer remains on the collective farm.
Business Trip
1962
8.0The cafe is almost empty. A customer tries in vain to choose a meal to his liking. The barmaid and two waitresses are discussing a recent radio program in which a retired waiter talks about the plight of his colleagues in the old days. The customer is nervous: borscht is impossible to eat, crayfish is already peckless, milk is sour, beer is warm.... The disappointed customer, leaving, says that he was the one who spoke on the radio. The waitresses apologize: they thought it was an ordinary customer, but now they will serve him in no time. The man refuses and in a peculiar way - by verse and personal example - gives a lesson in cultural service.
Приятного аппетита
1961
8.2Maxim Mezhe, a new manager, came to Zagotskotkontora. His arrival was marked by gifts from some subordinates - sycophants and swindlers. But Maxim turned out to be incorruptible, and then the swindlers began a war against him with the help of anonyms and denunciations....
Weirdo the Man
1962
6.5Young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painless tooth removal, much to the dismay of others, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.
Adventures of a Dentist
1967
6.1Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”.
To Love
1968
5.6Moscow academician Pavel Pavlovich comes to a picturesque village on the seashore to calmly spend his vacation here. Whiling away the time for sketches, he manages to get acquainted with the local guys, the restless Grishka and the daughter of the foreman Nyuska. Together they build a stove, repair a sewing machine, and reconstruct a telephone switchboard. When Pavel Pavlovich suddenly falls ill, all the villagers take care of him. When the time comes to leave, Pavel Pavlovich understands that in this village far from the capital, he leaves a piece of his heart.
Whistle Stop
1963
NRHaving very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed an operation to get closer to the city industrial council: asked for a meeting, and by Monday he ordered Stryapkov to find a gift. However, an incident occurred: the crown from the gold watch of Evlampius Kokin, a master of the sausage shop, was found in the sausage. Kokin, who had long been tormented by fear, without consulting with the leadership, came to the police himself.
A Hard Day's Monday
1964
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Secrets of Palace Coups
2000
7.1A Soviet scientist creates a brilliant robot. This is a boy who is able to solve any mathematical problems, he writes the best essays and sings perfectly! And he is also an exact copy of schoolboy Seryozha Syroezhkin. A clever boy quickly shifts all his duties to an electronic double. He does his homework for him, goes to school and does household chores that his parents entrust to Syroezhkin...
The Adventures of the Electronic
1980
7.3Operatives are looking for a killer who has appropriated someone else's identity. The story of a real case based on the story of Yulian Semyonov.
Confrontation
1985
9.0Plot revolves around the post-war decades and tells about the fate of former participants of the Great Patriotic War - Vera Boglyuk, Nina Verkhovskaya, Dusya Koroleva, Zina Skvortsova and Natasha Druzhinina.
Women Who Got Lucky
1990
8.0Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
Dead Souls
1984

