About
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.
Director
Producers
Vladimir Dudin, Victor Freilich
Studio
Mosfilm, Ritm
Original Title
Паспорт
Original Language
Russian
Keywords
Cast
Full credits →G
Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
N
Natalya Gundareva
Inga
O
Oleg Yankovskiy
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
A
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
E
Evgeni Leonov
Embassy employee in Austria
M
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Moisha Sepiashvili
L
Leonid Yarmolnik
Borya's Israeli partner
L
Levan Pilpani
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Y
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
N
Nina Ter-Osipyan
Inga's aunt
S
Sharon Hacohen
Jane - american journalist
K
Kim Sullivan
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
I
Igor Kvasha
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
A
Aleksandr Berda
Vasiliy Ermolenko
C
Claude Aviram
waiter at the restaurant
A
Amiran Amiranashvili (II)
Suren, the taxi driver
S
Shmuel Wolf
L
Levan Gabriadze
Merab Papashvili's colleague
G
Gelena Kirik
L
Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman
