Poor Sasha
Directed byTigran Keosayan
Written bySergey Beloshnikov
Vladimir Bragin
Produced byIvan Demidov
David Keosayan
Tatiana Voronovich
StarringAleksandr Zbruyev
Vera Glagoleva
CinematographyYuri Lyubshin
Music byArtemy Artemyev
Release date
  • 26 December 1997 (1997-12-26)
Running time
95 min
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

Poor Sasha (Russian: Бедная Саша, romanized: Bednaya Sasha) is a 1997 Russian adventure film directed by Tigran Keosayan.[1][2]

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

Awards

  • Kinotavr: Best Actor — Aleksandr Zbruyev
  • TEFI: Best Feature Film
  • IFF children's films Artek: Best actress-girl — Yulia Chernova

References

  1. Mark Connelly (27 October 2000). Christmas at the Movies: Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema. I.B.Tauris. pp. 206–207. ISBN 978-0-85771-135-9.
  2. "ТВ-6 покажет "Бедную Сашу"". Kommersant (in Russian). 1997-12-24. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
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