The Passport

Release date: 06/06/1990

Genres:

Comedy, Drama

Countries:

Austria
France

Rating:

6.3

A 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.

Actors

Gérard Darmon

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

Natalya Gundareva

Inga

Oleg Yankovskiy

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Semyon Klain - «Senya»

Evgeni Leonov

Embassy employee in Austria

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Moisha Sepiashvili

Leonid Yarmolnik

Borya's Israeli partner

Levan Pilpani

Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Nina Ter-Osipyan

Inga's aunt

Sharon Hacohen

Jane - american journalist

Kim Sullivan

Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

Christian Fellat

Tengiz

Igor Kvasha

chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

Rocky Albert Nirschl

academician Sesershvili

Aleksandr Berda

Vasiliy Ermolenko

Claude Aviram

waiter at the restaurant

Amiran Amiranashvili

Suren, the taxi driver

Mzia Atanelov

arab girl in a car with Borya

Shmuel Wolf

Levan Gabriadze

Merab Papashvili's colleague

Gelena Kirik

Leri Gaprindashvili

militiaman

Vladimir Gusev

Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov

Moris Janashvili

guest at the wedding

Nino Koberidze

conductor on the train

Darejan Jojua

Taxi dispatcher

Veronika Izotova

flight attendant

Smadar Kilchinsky

Yuriy Kushneryov

doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant

Georgiy Kupriyanov

Abesalom Loria

trainmaster

Guram Lortkipanidze

Yasha's neighbor

Ruslan Mikaberidze

Mustafa is Turkish

Dato Papuashvili

KGB officer

Igor Piliev

Israel Rubinchik

Boris Smorchkov

Galina Churilina

lunch lady

Constantin Alexandrov

waiter (uncredited)

Georgiy Daneliya

arab with a donkey (uncredited)

Vladimir Korovkin

airplane pilot (uncredited)

Evgeniy Kuleshov

man at the airport (uncredited)

Roman Madyanov

person passing through customs control (uncredited)

Iosif Ryklin

'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)

Irina Shmeleva

Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)

The Passport

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