''Poor Sasha'' () is a 1997 Russian adventure comedy film directed by
Tigran Keosayan.
Plot
A touching New Year's fairy tale about those who, despite money and status, lack love and warmth.
Moscow, late 1990s. Beryozkin, an honest, but unlucky bank robber is granted temporarily leave from prison after rescuing a general who's locked himself in a vault. He is given money by the prison warden and one of the mob bosses for gifts, but the money gets stolen by a pickpocket, and Beryozkin realizes that his best option is to commit suicide in order to avoid an otherwise gruesome death. He is saved by a tramp named Aristarchus, who offers him a solution: to rob the home of a banker.
Little do they know that the banker's home is booby-trapped by her twelve-year-old daughter Sasha. The unfortunate Beryozkin gets captured. However, instead of calling the police, Sasha blackmails Beryozkin into helping her rob her own mother, because she wants her mother "to stop being a businesswoman and to become a mother again".
Things go as planned except that the banker's security are actually criminals, and plan to rob the banker themselves.
Cast
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Aleksandr Zbruyev
Aleksandr Viktorovich Zbruyev (, born 31 March 1938, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian theatrical and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''My Younger Brother'' (1962) as Dimka Denisov
* ''A Span of Earth'' (1964) as Alek ...
as Beryozkin, the unfortunate bank-robber
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Vera Glagoleva as Sasha's Mother, the banker
* Yulia Chernova as Sasha
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Boris Sichkin
Boris Mikhailovich Sichkin (; ; 1922–2002) was a Soviet and American film actor, dancer, choreographer, composer and entertainer.
Biography
Sichkin born in Kyiv in the family of a Jewish shoemaker, who died when he was 4 years old. The elder ...
as Aristarkh Rostopchin, the tramp that helps Beryozkin
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Olga Volkova Olga Volkova may refer to:
* Olha Volkova (born 1986), Ukrainian freestyle skier
* Olga Volkova (actress) (born 1939), Russian actress
{{Hndis, Volkova, Olga ...
as Amalia Arkadyevna, Sasha's nanny
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Valery Garkalin as Kryshkin, one of the bank security/ robbers
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Spartak Mishulin
Spartak Vasilyevich Mishulin (; 22 October 1926 – 17 July 2005) was a Soviet actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR. He was best known for his roles as Sayid in '' White Sun of the Desert'' (1969) and the title character in the Soviet stage ada ...
as the mob boss that gives Beryozkin money
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Nina Ruslanova
Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova (; 5 December 1945 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.
She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia (1998). as Beryozkin's ex-wife
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Borisi Dzhigarkhanyan (3 October 193514 November 2020) was a Soviet Union, Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor.
Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Mos ...
as the prison warden
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Roman Madyanov
Roman Sergeevich Madyanov (; 22 July 1962 – 25 September 2024) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Madyanov's career in cinema began as a child actor when he starred as Huckleberry Finn in '' Hopelessly Lost'' (1973). He was best known in the West ...
as a prison guard
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Georgy Martirosyan as another prison guard
Awards
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Kinotavr
Kinotavr (), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival was an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[TEFI
TEFI () is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television. It has been awarded since 1994. TEFI is presented in various sectors (up to 50 nominations in 2008), such as television shows ...]
: Best Feature Film
* IFF children's films Artek: Best actress-girl — Yulia Chernova
References
External links
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1990s adventure comedy films
Films set around New Year
Russian adventure comedy films
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