Georgiy Vitsin

Acting

Georgiy Vitsin

Born — Died

1917-04-05 — 2001-10-22

Place of birth

Terijoki, Vyborg, Finland [now Zelenogorsk, Kurortny District, St. Petersburg, Russia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil 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

Yeralash poster
6.6

The 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

Legends of Cinema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Legends of Cinema

2016

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures poster
7.5

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

1965

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style poster
7.6

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

1967

The Twelve Chairs poster
7.5

Set in late-1920s Soviet Union, Ostap Bender and Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov are after a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the chairs in 12-chair set. They are forced to go on a cross-country chase when the chairs are auctioned off.

The Twelve Chairs

1977

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 11 titles

The Humpbacked Horse poster
6.4

Remake of the 1947 Soviet film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.

The Humpbacked Horse

1975

The Blue Bird poster
5.5

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.

The Blue Bird

1976

Gentlemen of Fortune poster
7.8

Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.

Gentlemen of Fortune

1971

The Sannikov Land poster
6.3

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.

The Sannikov Land

1973

It Can't Be! poster
7.3

The 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

12 Chairs poster
7.6

A 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

A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears poster
6.2

A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...

A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears

1976

While the Clocks Are Ticking poster
7.5

Schoolgirl Masha gets into the fabulous city cheerful workers, which with the help of servants and cap of invisibility inhibits the evil Korol Kropodin I. Before the townspeople finally get rid of oppressors, Masha is a party to the exciting events and adventures.

While the Clocks Are Ticking

1977

Yesterday, Today and Always poster
9.0

A 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

The Guardian poster
6.0

A young and lazy man becomes a guardian of an old lady.

The Guardian

1971

Cipollino poster
5.5

In 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

1960s · 25 titles

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures poster
7.5

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

1965

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style poster
7.6

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

1967

The Diamond Arm poster
7.7

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

The Diamond Arm

1969

The First Trolleybus poster
6.0

Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.

The First Trolleybus

1963

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross poster
7.6

This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

1961

Cipollino poster
6.9

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, "Cipollino, the Onion Boy" 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

1961

Три зятя poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Три зятя

1960

Bootleggers poster
7.3

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...

Bootleggers

1961

It Also Happens poster
NR

The film consists of three short stories: "The Runaway Car," "Apollo's Skeleton," and "Night Show."

It Also Happens

1966

Happy Merry-Go-Round poster
5.5

An animated magazine for children released by the Soyuzmultfilm studio.

Happy Merry-Go-Round

1969

Road to the Sea poster
7.0

Twin sisters Asya and Slavka dream of enrolling in a nautical school. After the first refusal, the girls go to Transbaikalia, get a job at the fur farm, make real friends, fall in love, experience all kinds of adventures and still dream of the sea.

Road to the Sea

1966

A Very Old Story poster
6.4

Based 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

The Adventures of Full Stop and Comma poster
6.5

The revived punctuation marks stand guard over fair play.

The Adventures of Full Stop and Comma

1965

About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations poster
7.7

Fabulous animals bathed, rested and had fun on the summer beach of the southern town. Suddenly, the rest was interrupted by an urgent message on a hanging poster: "Everyone needs to vaccinate vaccinations from elephant to fly!". However, all the animals, having read the message, as if nothing had happened, began to rest, dance and sunbathe again. And only Behemoth, worried, began to ask everyone how scary and painful it was to vaccinate.

About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations

1966

Film, Film, Film poster
7.7

The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together.

Film, Film, Film

1968

Sovershenno seryozno poster
6.9

An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

Sovershenno seryozno

1961

Strictly Business poster
7.3

Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson’s stallion, he’s ambushed and killed by “Shark” Dodson, who seizes the entire loot. (2) A thief slips through a third-floor window to steal a stack of bills from a sleeping gentleman’s dressing table. When the homeowner awakens and raises only one hand against the revolver—his other immobilized by a sudden rheumatic attack—the would-be robber reconsiders his plan. (3) Sam and Bill, two small-time grifters short $2,000 for their swindle, decide to kidnap Ebeneger Dorset’s young son. They demand exactly that sum as ransom, setting in motion a desperate bargain.

Strictly Business

1963

One, Two, Altogether! poster
NR

Elk, who ran through the forest during a thunderstorm, was crushed by a fallen tree. A brazen and treacherous magpie told the wolves about it all through the forest. Good forest animals decided to help to free the elk. The first was a hedgehog, then a hare and his mom, a family of squirrels, a mouse, a frog. Decisive in saving the elk from the wolves was the contribution of the smallest character - an ant.

One, Two, Altogether!

1967

The Tale of the Golden Rooster poster
6.4

A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.

The Tale of the Golden Rooster

1967

Valuable Kopeck poster
5.1

Animated short film dedicated to the redenomination of the Soviet ruble that happened on January 1, 1961.

Valuable Kopeck

1961

The Road to Berth poster
4.4

In search of real life 15-year-old Vaska goes to the Arctic, where he gets a job on a marine rescue tug "Cola". It is not easy to build a relationship with the naive kid crew — "sea wolves". Once the team receives a task — to tow the ship "Polotsk" broken during the war from the New Earth»…

The Road to Berth

1962

Голубой огонек - в первый час poster
5.0

In the first hour of the new year 1965, a holiday program with the participation of Pavel Rudakov and Sergei Lavrov, Larisa Mondrus, Tatiana Shmyga, Leonid Engibarov, Arkady Raikin, brothers Sazonov, Iosif Kobzon, Maya Kristalinskaya, Muslim Magomaev, vocal octet "Line" and pop orchestra conducted by Eddie Rosner, Yulia Pashkovskaya, Vladimir Shubarin, Eduard Khil, quartet "Accord" was broadcast. Among the guests are cosmonauts Gagarin, Belyaev and Leonov.

Голубой огонек - в первый час

1965

Thumbelina poster
6.9

A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".

Thumbelina

1964

Seven Old Men and One Girl poster
5.9

Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men.

Seven Old Men and One Girl

1968

A Tale of Lost Times poster
6.3

Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.

A Tale of Lost Times

1964

1950s · 16 titles

Don Quixote poster
6.7

Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.

Don Quixote

1957

The Twelve Months poster
6.3

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.

The Twelve Months

1956

The Adventures of Buratino poster
6.7

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.

The Adventures of Buratino

1959

Poet poster
6.0

Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.

Poet

1956

The Snow Maiden poster
5.9

The tale about a girl with a cold heart who is dying in agony because of joy and love.

The Snow Maiden

1952

The Snowman-Postman poster
7.6

On the eve of the New Year, several children write a letter to Father Frost asking him to send them a Christmas tree for the holiday, and then they make a Snowman who should take the letter to the magic forest. When midnight arrives, under the beat of a clock, the Snowman comes to life and, together with a small yard puppy, nicknamed Druzhok, sets off in search of Father Frost. (Note: Released in the United States as Spunky the Snowman in a shortened version of approximately 8 minutes.)

The Snowman-Postman

1955

A Hazel Tree Twig poster
6.3

The girl Mariuka goes in search of her brother Grigorash - he was carried away by the evil sorceress Kloantsa. On the way, the girl helps the Walnut Bush and the Giant. The bush gives her a magic tree twig...

A Hazel Tree Twig

1955

Three Woodcutters poster
5.3

Bubble, Straw and Bast Shoe look for firewood. Bubble doesn’t want to work but when, on their way back he shifts the share of firewood on the shoulders of the Bast Shoe, he gets in a trouble – the wind blows him off. After some adventures Bubble is rescued and reforms.

Three Woodcutters

1959

The Enchanted Boy poster
7.4

An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.

The Enchanted Boy

1955

Man of Music poster
4.7

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.

Man of Music

1952

The Tale About Malchish-Kibalchish poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Tale About Malchish-Kibalchish

1958

Forest Story poster
NR

Bear suffers from toothache. Other animals give him advice on how to cure a bad tooth, but their advice is ignorant.

Forest Story

1956

The Little Ship poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Little Ship

1956

New Attraction poster
8.0

The little boy dreams of devoting himself to a circus, which struck him with the fearlessness of artists working with wild animals, and, despite the constant risk and disorder of this profession, is achieving its goal.

New Attraction

1957

Once Upon a Time poster
7.3

The tale about a magic fish and resentful lover whose fiancee went to a lazy fool.

Once Upon a Time

1957

The Cat's House poster
5.7

A rich and ignorant cat loses her big house in a fire. Only then she realizes that a friend in need is a friend indeed.

The Cat's House

1958

Series credits

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil 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

Yeralash poster
6.6

The 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

Legends of Cinema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Legends of Cinema

2016

The Twelve Chairs poster
7.5

Set in late-1920s Soviet Union, Ostap Bender and Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov are after a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the chairs in 12-chair set. They are forced to go on a cross-country chase when the chairs are auctioned off.

The Twelve Chairs

1977

Little Brownie Kuzya poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Little Brownie Kuzya

1984

Самый маленький гном poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Самый маленький гном

1977

Следствие ведут Колобки poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Следствие ведут Колобки

1983

No artwork available
NR

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

My Destiny

1974

KOAPP poster
7.2

A series of puppet animated shorts based on the stories of Mailen Konstantinovsky about amazing phenomena in nature and the animal world

KOAPP

1984

Lost And Found Office poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Lost And Found Office

1982