If you want to recharge yourself with a New Year's mood and laugh heartily - choose the comedy “Poor Sasha” to watch. Actors of Russian cinema in just an hour and a half will give out a killer portion of subtle humor and tragicomic situations. So, who starred in this New Year’s film and what is the plot of the picture devoted to?
“Poor Sasha”: actors and roles
“Poor Sasha” is a film in which there will be no humor a la Comedy Club, vulgarity and puns. But still this is a good comedy, with a dramatic climax. It cannot be otherwise, because “Poor Sasha” is the brainchild of the 90s.
Alexander Zbruev as a loser thief
In the center of the plot is a loser thief Volodya Berezkin, who at one time fell for his own stupidity and now winds up a term in a colony. On New Year's Eve, he manages to save the General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for which prisoner Berezkin is given about a week to go to his wife and celebrate New Year's holidays with his family. But on January 1, Berezkin should be strictly at 8.00 at the gates of the colony.
And everything would be fine, only Volodya manages to do a lot of things in a week of “vacation”. He mistakenly crawls into someone else’s apartment and, hiding from the police, loses the money of mafia bosses who were given to him for gifts to “brothers”. After that, Berezkin decides to rob the apartment deliberately, but fails and gets caught in the network with the girl Sasha, who blackmail makes him rob the bank. That's how many events happen to the hero while the viewer watches the comedy “Poor Sasha”.
Actors Alexander Zbruev, Julia Chernova, Olga Volkova made up a beautiful on-screen ensemble. Moreover, Alexander Zbruev is a good actor of the "old" school and did an excellent job with his role.
Julia Chernova in the role of poor Sasha
Another important character for the comedy “Poor Sasha” is actually the girl of Alexander. Her mother is a banker, and she gave her daughter everything: good living conditions, an intelligent governess, sophisticated computers, and much more. But she did not give the girl the main thing - maternal attention and warmth.
The movie "Poor Sasha" about how a desperate child planned a bank robbery of his own parent only so that she would be fired so that "mom would cease to be a banker, but would become just mom." For this, Alexander also hires Berezkin, promising him a substantial amount of money, and simultaneously blackmailing him with what he will hand over to the police. What will come of this, the viewer will be able to find out only in the final picture.
Julia Chernova made her debut in the film “Poor Sasha” when she was only 12 years old. A year later, she appeared in the action movie "Yucca", and in 2002 she played a major role in the crime film "The Eyes of Olga Korzh." The last time the actress appeared on the screens in 2014 in the series "Rosehip Aroma".
Vera Glagoleva as a banker
In the film "Poor Sasha" actors Vera Glagoleva and Julia Chernova play mother and daughter. The heroine Glagoleva is a successful business woman, director of the bank. She conducts things tougher than any man, often swears and the whole is immersed in her work. And of course, Olga Vasilievna understands that she pays little attention to her daughter, but, on the other hand, she does not have a husband, which means that she needs to continue to work and put the child on her feet.
In the finale, the comedy “Poor Sasha”, whose actors performed flawlessly, transforms a little into a detective story and even drama, because a comic robbery turns into a real one: only it was not planned by Sasha and Berezkin, but by Olga Vasilyevna’s companions.
Vera Glagoleva has not been removed very often recently, but during the Soviet Union she was a promising actress: Vera can be seen in the films “To the End of the World”, “Starfall”, “About You”, “Torpedo Battles”, “Marry the Captain” "And in many others.
Olga Volkova as a governess
Perhaps the most comical actors in the film “Poor Sasha” are Olga Volkova and Boris Sichkin.
Olga Volkova began acting in the late 50s. XX century She often got comedic roles: she played the silly Lotta in the film Ian Fried “The Bat”, the waitress Violetta in the film Eldar Ryazanov “Station for Two”, an entertaining Mrs. Hawkins in the adventure film “Treasure Island”.
In the comedy “Poor Sasha” Olga Volkova appeared before the viewer as the highly intelligent governess Alexandra - Amalia Arkadevna. Amalia listens to classical music, reads serious literature and is fluent in French. Against the background of bankers, bandits and other "masters of life" in the 90s. such a colorful lady cannot help but smile.
Boris Sichkin as an intellectual homeless
The film “Poor Sasha”, the actors and the roles of which the viewer would remember for a long time after watching, would not be complete without the colorful image created by Boris Sichkin: in the film, he played Berezkin's friend, the intellectual bum Aristarch Lvovich. The homeless intellectual is, of course, a unique phenomenon of the 90s. Only in those days a person with two higher educations, a deputy of the State Duma, could be in the transition and sing songs to the accordion.
Boris Sichkin also starred in the films Anna on the Neck, Elusive Avengers, The Last Days of Pompeii, and many other films.
Other role performers
In the comedy “Poor Sasha” you can see the actors Valery Garkalin (“The Dossier of Detective Dubrovsky”), Armen Dzhigarkhanyan (“The meeting place cannot be changed”), Spartak Mishulin (“Zucchini" 13 chairs ""), Nina Ruslanova ("Shadows disappear at noon ”), Anatoly Zhuravlev (“ Bourgeois’s Birthday ”), Igor Vorobyov (“ Method ”), Georgy Martirosyan (“ Pirates of the 20th Century ”), Sergey Gabrielyan (“ Chinese Service ”), Vladimir Prokhorov (“ Lynx Returns ”), Vladimir Dolinsky ("Countess de Monsoro") and many others.