The Passport
1990 · 103 min · 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.
- Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
- Writers
- Georgiy Daneliya, Revaz Gabriadze, Arkadiy Khayt
- Released
- June 6, 1990
- Language
- Russian
Cast
Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya Gundareva
Inga
Oleg Yankovsky
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Evgeni Leonov
Embassy employee in Austria
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Moisha Sepiashvili
Leonid Yarmolnik
Borya's Israeli partner
Levan Pilpani
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Nina Ter-Osipyan
Inga's aunt
Sharon Hacohen
Jane - american journalist
Nutsa Koguashvili
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