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The Passport

6.3 103 mins Comedy   Drama   1990
Mosfilm   Ritm  
Director(s): Georgiy Daneliya

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.

Casts of The Passport

Gérard Darmon

as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

Oleg Yankovskiy

as Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

as Semyon Klain - «Senya»

Evgeni Leonov

as Embassy employee in Austria

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

as Moisha Sepiashvili

Leonid Yarmolnik

as Borya's Israeli partner

Levan Pilpani

as Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

as Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Nina Ter-Osipyan

as Inga's aunt

Sharon Hacohen

as Jane - american journalist

Kim Sullivan

as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

Christian Fellat

as Tengiz

Igor Kvasha

as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

Rocky Albert Nirschl

as academician Sesershvili

Aleksandr Berda

as Vasiliy Ermolenko

Claude Aviram

as waiter at the restaurant

Amiran Amiranashvili

as Suren, the taxi driver

Mzia Atanelov

as arab girl in a car with Borya

Levan Gabriadze

as Merab Papashvili's colleague

Leri Gaprindashvili

as militiaman

Vladimir Gusev

as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov

Moris Janashvili

as guest at the wedding

Nino Koberidze

as conductor on the train

Darejan Jojua

as Taxi dispatcher

Veronika Izotova

as flight attendant

B. Koen

as

Yuriy Kushneryov

as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant

Abesalom Loria

as trainmaster

Guram Lortkipanidze

as Yasha's neighbor

Ruslan Mikaberidze

as Mustafa is Turkish

Dato Papuashvili

as KGB officer

Rene Khobua

as (credit only)

Galina Churilina

as lunch lady

Constantin Alexandrov

as waiter (uncredited)

Georgiy Daneliya

as arab with a donkey (uncredited)

Vladimir Korovkin

as airplane pilot (uncredited)

Evgeniy Kuleshov

as man at the airport (uncredited)

Roman Madyanov

as person passing through customs control (uncredited)

Iosif Ryklin

as 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)

Irina Shmeleva

as Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)

Eduard Sushkov

as man on a plane (uncredited)

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