THE PASSPORT (1990)

The Passport
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The Passport
Comedy, Drama
June 6, 1990
Russian
1h 43m
Soviet Union
Mosfilm

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.

Cast & Characters

Gérard Darmon

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

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

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

Levan Gabriadze

Merab Papashvili's colleague

Crew

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