Roots
Бедные родственники
Release: 2005-10-05
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 4.5
Comedy
Drama
Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them - and the lech Simon - a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator - turn Letov's latest scheme into a veritable cat's cradle.
Production Countries
France
Russia
Production Companies
ARTE France Cinéma
Canal+
Catherine Dussart Productions
Karo Premiere
ONIX FIlm
Cast
Vladimir Salnikov
as Kovchikov
Konstantin Vorobyov
Leonid Kanevsky
as Baroukh
Natalya Kolyakanova
as Regina
Evgeniya Dmitrieva
as Olga
Elena Galibina
as Aliona's mother
Konstantin Khabenskiy
as Edik
Esther Gorintin
as Esther
Sergey Garmash
as Yacha
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
as Marc-Yves
Marianna Shults
Mikhail Parygin
as Miroslav
Daniil Spivakovskiy
as Tsaussami
Miglen Mirtchev
as Andrew
Marina Golub
as Bella
Aleksandr Ilin
as The mayor
