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The Passport
1990, Jun 06
1h 43m
Merab, a Georgian taxi driver who mistakenly crosses into Israel while seeing off his Jewish brother, Yasha, gets stuck without documents. He gets entangled in bureaucratic nightmares, mistaken identity, and KGB plots while trying to return home.
Directed by
Georgiy Daneliya
Written by
Arkadiy Khayt, Revaz Gabriadze, Georgiy Daneliya
Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Aleksandr Berda
Vasiliy Ermolenko
Oleg Yankovskiy
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Boris Smorchkov
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Roman Madyanov
person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Moisha Sepiashvili
Evgeni Leonov
Embassy employee in Austria
Leonid Yarmolnik
Borya's Israeli partner
Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Konstantin Aleksandrov
waiter (uncredited)
Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor
Veronika Izotova
flight attendant
Smadar Kilchinsky
Nina Ter-Osipyan
Inga's aunt
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Igor Kvasha
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Levan Pilpani
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train
Gelena Kirik
Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher
Amiran Amiranashvili (II)
Suren, the taxi driver
Claude Aviram
waiter at the restaurant
Shmuel Wolf
Galina Churilina
lunch lady
Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer
Irina Shmeleva
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Natalya Gundareva
Inga
Iosif Ryklin
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Vladimir Korovkin
airplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshov
man at the airport (uncredited)
Rocky Albert Nirschl
academician Sesershvili
Igor Piliev
Mzia Atanelov
arab girl in a car with Borya
Kim Sullivan
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding
Christian Fellat
Tengiz
Israel Rubinchik
Sharon Hacohen
Jane - american journalist
Nutsa Koguashvili
N. Anokhina
Aleksandr Brodskiy
Ts. Dadiani
T. Kipiani
L. Kublashvili
Sh. Koen
B. Koen
Abesalom Loria
trainmaster
Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish
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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