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The Passport
1990, Jun 06
1h 43m
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.
Directed by
Georgiy Daneliya
Written by
Arkadiy Khayt, Revaz Gabriadze, Georgiy Daneliya
Veronika Izotova
flight attendant
Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Sharon Hacohen
Jane - american journalist
Roman Madyanov
person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Leonid Yarmolnik
Borya's Israeli partner
Evgeni Leonov
Embassy employee in Austria
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Oleg Yankovskiy
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Abesalom Loria
trainmaster
Igor Kvasha
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Boris Smorchkov
Aleksandr Berda
Vasiliy Ermolenko
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Moisha Sepiashvili
Irina Shmeleva
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Nina Ter-Osipyan
Inga's aunt
Constantin Alexandrov
waiter (uncredited)
Natalya Gundareva
Inga
Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor
Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Amiran Amiranashvili
Suren, the taxi driver
Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish
Levan Pilpani
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Smadar Kilchinsky
Shmuel Wolf
Kim Sullivan
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Christian Fellat
Tengiz
Rocky Albert Nirschl
academician Sesershvili
Claude Aviram
waiter at the restaurant
Mzia Atanelov
arab girl in a car with Borya
Gelena Kirik
Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman
Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding
Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train
Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher
Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer
Igor Piliev
Israel Rubinchik
Galina Churilina
lunch lady
Vladimir Korovkin
airplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshov
man at the airport (uncredited)
Iosif Ryklin
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Vladimir Dudin
Nutsa Koguashvili
N. Anokhina
Aleksandr Brodskiy
Ts. Dadiani
T. Kipiani
L. Kublashvili
Sh. Koen
B. Koen
L. Mikaeli
A. Mirzani
L. Nergul
Irina Fandera
Rene Khobua
(credit only)
A. Shazar
Eduard Sushkov
man on a plane (uncredited)
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