title: Fara (film)
text: # Fara (film)
  
  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.
  
  ## 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
  