Fara (film)

Fara
Film poster
Directed by	Abay Karpykov
Written by	Boris Airapetyan Leila Akhinzhanova
Produced by	Boris Airapetyan
Starring	Farhat Abdraimov
Cinematography	Aleksei Berkovich
Music by	Boris Airapetyan
Release date	1 July 1999 (1999-07-01)
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	Russia Kazakhstan
Language	Russian

Fara (Russian: Фара) is a 1999 Russian thriller drama film directed by Abay Karpykov. It was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival where Farhat Abdraimov won the Silver St. George for Best Actor.[1]

Plot

Fara is a good-natured fat man, the son of the murdered bank director. As a child, the boy was disabled, and only his sole friend Bob at the cost of his life helped to get the boy to his feet. Fara's father left him a legacy of millions on a secret account. Mafia's goal becomes to learn the code to it. Then a strange woman appears with a sick child whose life supposedly can only be saved by means of an immediate and very expensive operation.

Cast

• Farhat Abdraimov as Fara
• Christina Orbakaite as stranger
• Aleksandr Aleksandrov
• Dauren Sarsekeyev
• Peter Zhmutski as hippie
• Maurizio Aschero as banker

References

1. "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.

External links

• Fara at IMDb