A slacker catches a fish that grants wishes—if he doesn't eat it first. Chaos ensues.
Feature film based on a Russian fairy tale. A smart but lazy farm boy is sent to fetch water by his mother. He catches a magical fish that promises to grant his every wish if he gives him his life.
Practical Effects
Talking fish puppet that will haunt your dreams
Production
Garish post-Soviet fantasy sets that scream 1992
Costume
Elena's dresses: peak 'eastern European mall wedding' energy
Director
Boris Rytsarev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on 'The Humpbacked Horse' adjacent folklore, this captures the brief window when post-Soviet cinema could still get funding for weird family fantasy before oligarchs took over.
Director Boris Rytsarev spent his career adapting Russian fairy tales; this was one of his last before the industry collapsed. The fish puppet required four operators.
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