Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fetin (Russian: Владимир Александрович Фетин; 14 October 1925 — 20 August 1981) was a Soviet film director.
[2] He changed several professions after the war, then entered the director's faculty at VGIK, a workshop led by Sergei Gerasimov which he finished in 1959.
Striped Trip was shot on board of a motor vessel in the Black Sea, with ten tigers, a lion and a chimpanzee acting along with popular comedy actors.
[10] After that Fetin turned back to dramas and directed Don Tale (1964), another Sholokhov adaptation based on two of his early stories.
Once again he cast Yevgeny Leonov in the main part along with Lyudmila Chursina whom he married shortly after the film was released, again, to a success, becoming the 7th most popular Soviet movie of 1964 with 31.8 mln viewers.