The Passport

The Passport

103 mins | Comedy | June 6, 1990

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.

The Passport

103 mins | Comedy | June 6, 1990

The Passport
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Mosfilm, Ritm, Gosfilmfond Russia
Original title Паспорт
Directors Georgiy Daneliya
Writers Arkadiy Khayt, Revaz Gabriadze, Georgiy Daneliya

Cast

Gérard Darmon

as Merab Papashvili / Yasha

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

as Сеня

Oleg Yankovskiy

as Borya

Evgeni Leonov

as Consul

Igor Kvasha

as Rabbi

Leonid Yarmolnik

as израильский компаньон Бори

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

as грузинский эмигрант

Levan Gabriadze

as доминошник / человек с цветами

Irina Shmeleva

as podruga Vasi

Nina Ter-Osipyan

as тетя Инги

Roman Madyanov

as человек на паспортном контроле

Leo Pilpani

as Папашвили

Amiran Amiranashvili

as Suren, the taxi driver

Aleksandr Berda

as Vasiliy Ermolenko

Galina Churilina

as lunch lady

Vladimir Gusev

as Ivan Petrovich

Veronika Izotova

as flight attendant

Yuriy Kushneryov

as doorman

Guram Lortkipanidze

as Yasha's neighbor

Ruslan Mikaberidze

as Mustafa