The Passport
Georgiy Daneliya1990-06-06
6.3
103 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Gérard Darmon | Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili | Unowned |
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Natalya Gundareva | Inga | Unowned |
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Oleg Yankovskiy | Borya - nicknamed «Paris» | Unowned |
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan | Semyon Klain - «Senya» | Unowned |
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Evgeni Leonov | Embassy employee in Austria | Unowned |
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Mamuka Kikaleishvili | Moisha Sepiashvili | Unowned |
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Leonid Yarmolnik | Borya's Israeli partner | Unowned |
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Levan Pilpani | Vakhtang Papashvili - father | Unowned |
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Ya'ackov Ben-Sira | Bernstein - Inga's uncle | Unowned |
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Nina Ter-Osipyan | Inga's aunt | Unowned |
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Sharon Hacohen | Jane - american journalist | Unowned |
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Nutsa Koguashvili | Unowned | |
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Kim Sullivan | Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia | Unowned |
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Christian Fellat | Tengiz | Unowned |
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Igor Kvasha | chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue | Unowned |
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Rocky Albert Nirschl | academician Sesershvili | Unowned |
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Aleksandr Berda | Vasiliy Ermolenko | Unowned |
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Claude Aviram | waiter at the restaurant | Unowned |
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Amiran Amiranashvili | Suren, the taxi driver | Unowned |
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N. Anokhina | Unowned | |
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Mzia Atanelov | arab girl in a car with Borya | Unowned |
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Aleksandr Brodskiy | Unowned | |
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Shmuel Wolf | Unowned | |
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Levan Gabriadze | Merab Papashvili's colleague | Unowned |
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Gelena Kirik | Unowned | |
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Leri Gaprindashvili | militiaman | Unowned |
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Vladimir Gusev | Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov | Unowned |
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Ts. Dadiani | Unowned | |
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Moris Janashvili | guest at the wedding | Unowned |
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Nino Koberidze | conductor on the train | Unowned |
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Darejan Jojua | Taxi dispatcher | Unowned |
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Veronika Izotova | flight attendant | Unowned |
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Smadar Kilchinsky | Unowned | |
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Sasha Klein | Unowned | |
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T. Kipiani | Unowned | |
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L. Kublashvili | Unowned | |
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Sh. Koen | Unowned | |
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B. Koen | Unowned | |
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Yuriy Kushneryov | doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant | Unowned |
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Georgiy Kupriyanov | Unowned | |
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Abesalom Loria | trainmaster | Unowned |
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Guram Lortkipanidze | Yasha's neighbor | Unowned |
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Ruslan Mikaberidze | Mustafa is Turkish | Unowned |
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L. Mikaeli | Unowned | |
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A. Mirzani | Unowned | |
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L. Nergul | Unowned | |
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Dato Papuashvili | KGB officer | Unowned |
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Igor Piliev | Unowned | |
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Israel Rubinchik | Unowned | |
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Boris Smorchkov | Unowned | |
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Irina Fandera | Unowned | |
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Rene Khobua | (credit only) | Unowned |
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Galina Churilina | lunch lady | Unowned |
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A. Shazar | Unowned | |
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Constantin Alexandrov | waiter (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Georgiy Daneliya | arab with a donkey (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Vladimir Korovkin | airplane pilot (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Evgeniy Kuleshov | man at the airport (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Roman Madyanov | person passing through customs control (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Iosif Ryklin | 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Irina Shmeleva | Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Eduard Sushkov | man on a plane (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Amiran Amiranashvili | Unowned |