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