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

[1][2] A touching New Year's fairy tale about those who, despite money and status, lack love and warmth.

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.