
The Passport
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.
The Passport
June 6, 1990
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Cast (54)

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

N. Anokhina
N/A

Mzia Atanelov
arab girl in a car with Borya

Shmuel Wolf
N/A

Levan Gabriadze
Merab Papashvili's colleague

Gelena Kirik
N/A

Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman

Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov

Ts. Dadiani
N/A

Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding

Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train

Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher

Veronika Izotova
flight attendant

Sasha Klein
N/A

T. Kipiani
N/A

L. Kublashvili
N/A

Sh. Koen
N/A

B. Koen
N/A

Yuriy Kushneryov
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant

Abesalom Loria
trainmaster

Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor

Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish

Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer

Boris Smorchkov
N/A

Rene Khobua
(credit only)

Galina Churilina
lunch lady

Constantin Alexandrov
waiter (uncredited)

Georgiy Daneliya
arab with a donkey (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)
Crew (11)
Directing

Georgiy Daneliya
Director
Writing
Production

Viktor Freylikh
Producer

Vladimir Dudin
Producer
Sound

Gia Kancheli
Music
Art

Dimitri Takaishvili
Production Design
Camera

Vadim Yusov
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
No data availableEditing

Olga Grinshpun
Editor

Tatyana Egorycheva
Editor