The Passport
06/06/1990
2h



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.
Cast


Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili


Natalya Gundareva
Inga


Oleg Yankovskiy
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


Kim Sullivan
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia


Christian Fellat
Tengiz


Igor Kvasha
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue


Rocky Albert Nirschl
academician Sesershvili


Aleksandr Berda
Vasiliy Ermolenko


Claude Aviram
waiter at the restaurant


Amiran Amiranashvili (II)
Suren, the taxi driver
N. Anokhina


Mzia Atanelov
arab girl in a car with Borya
Aleksandr Brodskiy


Shmuel Wolf


Levan Gabriadze
Merab Papashvili's colleague


Gelena Kirik


Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman


Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani


Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding


Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train


Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher


Veronika Izotova
flight attendant


Smadar Kilchinsky
Sasha Klein
T. Kipiani
L. Kublashvili
Sh. Koen
B. Koen


Yuriy Kushneryov
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant


Georgiy Kupriyanov
Abesalom Loria
trainmaster


Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor


Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli
A. Mirzani
L. Nergul


Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer


Igor Piliev


Israel Rubinchik


Boris Smorchkov
Irina Fandera
Rene Khobua
(credit only)


Galina Churilina
lunch lady
A. Shazar


Konstantin Aleksandrov
waiter (uncredited)


Georgiy Daneliya
arab with a donkey (uncredited)


Vladimir Korovkin
airplane pilot (uncredited)


Evgeniy Kuleshov
man at the airport (uncredited)


Roman Madyanov
person passing through customs control (uncredited)


Iosif Ryklin
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)


Irina Shmeleva
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Eduard Sushkov
man on a plane (uncredited)
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