Sergey Mikhailovich Ovcharov (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Овчаро́в; born April 29, 1955, Rostov-on-Don) is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, teacher (SPbGIKiT). Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1994).
Fedot the Shooter is sent by the Czar to find some special food for the foreign ambassador's visit. During the hunt Fedot meets his love Marusya - the magical bird-woman. Evil Czar and his no-less-evil sidekick General with the help of the local witch Yaga try to eliminate Fedot by giving him more and more complex quests and to take Marusya to Tsar's palace. Marusya helps Fedot to solve the quests successfully.
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The film traces the change of the “chiefs” of the county town of Glupov, which differ in varying degrees of tyranny and the corresponding total number of “killed” city residents. The heads of the city easily guess the former heads of the Russian state and the USSR.
A tragicomic grotesque fantasy about the adventures of a drum and its owner in a country once called the Soviet Union.