Roots (2005)

4.9/10 103 min Comedy Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Edik

Esther Gorintin

Esther

Daniil Spivakovskiy

Tsaussami

Leonid Kanevsky

Baroukh

Sergey Garmash

Yacha

Natalya Kolyakanova

Regina

Miglen Mirtchev

Andrew

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

Marc-Yves

Marina Golub

Bella

Evgeniya Dmitrieva

Olga

Aleksandr Ilin

The mayor

Vladimir Salnikov

Kovchikov

Elena Galibina

Aliona's mother

Marianna Shults

Mikhail Parygin

Miroslav

Konstantin Vorobyov

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