The Passport

The Passport (1990)

Released: 1990-06-06 Duration: 1hr 43min
Genres: Comedy Drama
Rating 6.3

Overview

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.

Production Companies

Mosfilm
Mosfilm
Ritm

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language ru
Popularity 0.847

Directed By

Georgiy Daneliya

Crew

Producer
Vladimir Dudin
Producer
Viktor Freylikh
Production Design
Dimitri Takaishvili
Director of Photography
Vadim Yusov

TOP CAST

Gérard Darmon
Gérard Darmon

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

Oleg Yankovskiy
Oleg Yankovskiy

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Semyon Klain - «Senya»

Evgeni Leonov
Evgeni Leonov

Embassy employee in Austria

Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Moisha Sepiashvili

Leonid Yarmolnik
Leonid Yarmolnik

Borya's Israeli partner

Levan Pilpani
Levan Pilpani

Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Nina Ter-Osipyan
Nina Ter-Osipyan

Inga's aunt

Sharon Hacohen
Sharon Hacohen

Jane - american journalist

Kim Sullivan
Kim Sullivan

Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

Igor Kvasha
Igor Kvasha

chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

Rocky Albert Nirschl
Rocky Albert Nirschl

academician Sesershvili

Aleksandr Berda
Aleksandr Berda

Vasiliy Ermolenko

Claude Aviram
Claude Aviram

waiter at the restaurant

Amiran Amiranashvili
Amiran Amiranashvili

Suren, the taxi driver

Mzia Atanelov
Mzia Atanelov

arab girl in a car with Borya

Levan Gabriadze
Levan Gabriadze

Merab Papashvili's colleague

Vladimir Gusev
Vladimir Gusev

Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov

Moris Janashvili
Moris Janashvili

guest at the wedding

Nino Koberidze
Nino Koberidze

conductor on the train

Darejan Jojua
Darejan Jojua

Taxi dispatcher

Veronika Izotova
Veronika Izotova

flight attendant

Yuriy Kushneryov
Yuriy Kushneryov

doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant

Abesalom Loria
Abesalom Loria

trainmaster

Guram Lortkipanidze
Guram Lortkipanidze

Yasha's neighbor

Ruslan Mikaberidze
Ruslan Mikaberidze

Mustafa is Turkish

Dato Papuashvili
Dato Papuashvili

KGB officer

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