The Passport
Паспорт
Release: 1990-06-06
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 6.0
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.
Production Countries
Austria
France
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Ritm
Cast
Levan Pilpani
as Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Igor Kvasha
as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Nino Koberidze
as conductor on the train
Georgiy Kupriyanov
Irina Shmeleva
as Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Natalya Gundareva
as Inga
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
as Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Veronika Izotova
as flight attendant
Abesalom Loria
as trainmaster
Rocky Albert Nirschl
as academician Sesershvili
Yuriy Kushneryov
as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Iosif Ryklin
as 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
as Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Aleksandr Berda
as Vasiliy Ermolenko
Claude Aviram
as waiter at the restaurant
Shmuel Wolf
Levan Gabriadze
as Merab Papashvili's colleague
Darejan Jojua
as Taxi dispatcher
Galina Churilina
as lunch lady
Roman Madyanov
as person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Gérard Darmon
as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Boris Smorchkov
Oleg Yankovskiy
as Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Evgeni Leonov
as Embassy employee in Austria
Moris Janashvili
as guest at the wedding
Leonid Yarmolnik
as Borya's Israeli partner
Mzia Atanelov
as arab girl in a car with Borya
Guram Lortkipanidze
as Yasha's neighbor
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
as Moisha Sepiashvili
Nina Ter-Osipyan
as Inga's aunt
Christian Fellat
as Tengiz
Vladimir Gusev
as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Smadar Kilchinsky
Vladimir Korovkin
as airplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshov
as man at the airport (uncredited)
Georgiy Daneliya
as arab with a donkey (uncredited)
Gelena Kirik
Igor Piliev
Kim Sullivan
as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Ruslan Mikaberidze
as Mustafa is Turkish
Dato Papuashvili
as KGB officer
Konstantin Aleksandrov
as waiter (uncredited)
Sharon Hacohen
as Jane - american journalist
Leri Gaprindashvili
as militiaman
Israel Rubinchik
Amiran Amiranashvili (II)
as Suren, the taxi driver,
