The Passport (1990)

6.1/10 • 103 min • Comedy Drama

Overview

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 Yankovsky

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

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

Suren, the taxi driver

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