The Passport

The Passport

Original Title: Паспорт
Release: 1990 | Community Score: 61%

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.

Cast

Gérard Darmon

Gérard Darmon

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya Gundareva

Natalya Gundareva

Inga
Oleg Yankovskiy

Oleg Yankovskiy

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Evgeni Leonov

Evgeni Leonov

Embassy employee in Austria
Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Moisha Sepiashvili
Leonid Yarmolnik

Leonid Yarmolnik

Borya's Israeli partner
Levan Pilpani

Levan Pilpani

Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Nina Ter-Osipyan

Nina Ter-Osipyan

Inga's aunt
Sharon Hacohen

Sharon Hacohen

Jane - american journalist
Nutsa Koguashvili

Nutsa Koguashvili

Kim Sullivan

Kim Sullivan

Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Christian Fellat

Christian Fellat

Tengiz
Igor Kvasha

Igor Kvasha

chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Rocky Albert Nirschl

Rocky Albert Nirschl

academician Sesershvili
Aleksandr Berda

Aleksandr Berda

Vasiliy Ermolenko
Claude Aviram

Claude Aviram

waiter at the restaurant
Amiran Amiranashvili

Amiran Amiranashvili

Suren, the taxi driver
N. Anokhina

N. Anokhina

Mzia Atanelov

Mzia Atanelov

arab girl in a car with Borya
Aleksandr Brodskiy

Aleksandr Brodskiy

Shmuel Wolf

Shmuel Wolf

Levan Gabriadze

Levan Gabriadze

Merab Papashvili's colleague
Gelena Kirik

Gelena Kirik

Leri Gaprindashvili

Leri Gaprindashvili

militiaman
Vladimir Gusev

Vladimir Gusev

Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani

Ts. Dadiani

Moris Janashvili

Moris Janashvili

guest at the wedding
Nino Koberidze

Nino Koberidze

conductor on the train
Darejan Jojua

Darejan Jojua

Taxi dispatcher
Veronika Izotova

Veronika Izotova

flight attendant
Smadar Kilchinsky

Smadar Kilchinsky

Sasha Klein

Sasha Klein

T. Kipiani

T. Kipiani

L. Kublashvili

L. Kublashvili

Sh. Koen

Sh. Koen

B. Koen

B. Koen

Yuriy Kushneryov

Yuriy Kushneryov

doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Georgiy Kupriyanov

Georgiy Kupriyanov

Abesalom Loria

Abesalom Loria

trainmaster
Guram Lortkipanidze

Guram Lortkipanidze

Yasha's neighbor
Ruslan Mikaberidze

Ruslan Mikaberidze

Mustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli

L. Mikaeli

A. Mirzani

A. Mirzani

L. Nergul

L. Nergul

Dato Papuashvili

Dato Papuashvili

KGB officer
Igor Piliev

Igor Piliev

Israel Rubinchik

Israel Rubinchik

Boris Smorchkov

Boris Smorchkov

Irina Fandera

Irina Fandera

Rene Khobua

Rene Khobua

(credit only)
Galina Churilina

Galina Churilina

lunch lady
A. Shazar

A. Shazar

Konstantin Aleksandrov

Konstantin Aleksandrov

waiter (uncredited)
Georgiy Daneliya

Georgiy Daneliya

arab with a donkey (uncredited)
Vladimir Korovkin

Vladimir Korovkin

airplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshov

Evgeniy Kuleshov

man at the airport (uncredited)
Roman Madyanov

Roman Madyanov

person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Iosif Ryklin

Iosif Ryklin

'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Irina Shmeleva

Irina Shmeleva

Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Eduard Sushkov

Eduard Sushkov

man on a plane (uncredited)
Amiran Amiranashvili

Amiran Amiranashvili