The Passport
1990A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
Acted in
Gérard Darmon
as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya Gundareva
as Inga
Oleg Yankovskiy
as Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
as Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Evgeni Leonov
as Embassy employee in Austria
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
as Moisha Sepiashvili
Leonid Yarmolnik
as Borya's Israeli partner
Levan Pilpani
as Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
as Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Nina Ter-Osipyan
as Inga's aunt
Sharon Hacohen
as Jane - american journalist
Nutsa Koguashvili
Kim Sullivan
as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Christian Fellat
as Tengiz
Igor Kvasha
as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Rocky Albert Nirschl
as academician Sesershvili
Aleksandr Berda
as Vasiliy Ermolenko
Claude Aviram
as waiter at the restaurant
Amiran Amiranashvili
as Suren, the taxi driver
N. Anokhina
Mzia Atanelov
as arab girl in a car with Borya
Aleksandr Brodskiy
Shmuel Wolf
Levan Gabriadze
as Merab Papashvili's colleague
Gelena Kirik
Leri Gaprindashvili
as militiaman
Vladimir Gusev
as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani
Moris Janashvili
as guest at the wedding
Nino Koberidze
as conductor on the train
Darejan Jojua
as Taxi dispatcher
Veronika Izotova
as flight attendant
Smadar Kilchinsky
Sasha Klein
T. Kipiani
L. Kublashvili
Sh. Koen
B. Koen
Yuriy Kushneryov
as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Georgiy Kupriyanov
Abesalom Loria
as trainmaster
Guram Lortkipanidze
as Yasha's neighbor
Ruslan Mikaberidze
as Mustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli
A. Mirzani
L. Nergul
Dato Papuashvili
as KGB officer
Igor Piliev
Israel Rubinchik
Boris Smorchkov
Irina Fandera
Rene Khobua
as (credit only)
Galina Churilina
as lunch lady
A. Shazar
Constantin Alexandrov
as waiter (uncredited)
Georgiy Daneliya
as arab with a donkey (uncredited)
Vladimir Korovkin
as airplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshov
as man at the airport (uncredited)
Roman Madyanov
as person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Iosif Ryklin
as 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Irina Shmeleva
as Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Eduard Sushkov
as man on a plane (uncredited)
Amiran Amiranashvili