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The Passport

63 %|Jun 6, 1990|Comedy, Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Georgiy Daneliya
Director
Viktor Freylikh
Producer
Vladimir Dudin
Producer
Gia Kancheli
Music
Dimitri Takaishvili
Production Design
Tatyana Egorycheva
Editor
Olga Grinshpun
Editor
Revaz Gabriadze
Writer

Cast

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Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
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Oleg Yankovskiy
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
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Evgeni Leonov
Embassy employee in Austria
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Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Moisha Sepiashvili
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Leonid Yarmolnik
Borya's Israeli partner
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Levan Pilpani
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
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Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
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Nina Ter-Osipyan
Inga's aunt
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Sharon Hacohen
Jane - american journalist
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Kim Sullivan
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
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Igor Kvasha
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
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Rocky Albert Nirschl
academician Sesershvili
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Aleksandr Berda
Vasiliy Ermolenko
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Claude Aviram
waiter at the restaurant
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Amiran Amiranashvili
Suren, the taxi driver
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Mzia Atanelov
arab girl in a car with Borya
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Levan Gabriadze
Merab Papashvili's colleague
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Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
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Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding
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Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train
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Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher
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Veronika Izotova
flight attendant
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Yuriy Kushneryov
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
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Abesalom Loria
trainmaster
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Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor
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Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish
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Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer
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Rene Khobua
(credit only)
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Constantin Alexandrov
waiter (uncredited)
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Georgiy Daneliya
arab with a donkey (uncredited)
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Vladimir Korovkin
airplane pilot (uncredited)
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Evgeniy Kuleshov
man at the airport (uncredited)
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Roman Madyanov
person passing through customs control (uncredited)
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Iosif Ryklin
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
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Irina Shmeleva
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
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Eduard Sushkov
man on a plane (uncredited)