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