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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.

1990 |1h 43m |  Comedy, Drama

Cast

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Gérard Darmon

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

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Natalya Gundareva

Inga

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Oleg Yankovskiy

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Semyon Klain - «Senya»

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Evgeni Leonov

Embassy employee in Austria

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Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Moisha Sepiashvili

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Leonid Yarmolnik

Borya's Israeli partner

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Levan Pilpani

Vakhtang Papashvili - father

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Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Bernstein - Inga's uncle

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Nina Ter-Osipyan

Inga's aunt

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Sharon Hacohen

Jane - american journalist

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Kim Sullivan

Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

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Christian Fellat

Tengiz

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Igor Kvasha

chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

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Rocky Albert Nirschl

academician Sesershvili

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Aleksandr Berda

Vasiliy Ermolenko

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Claude Aviram

waiter at the restaurant

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Amiran Amiranashvili

Suren, the taxi driver

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Mzia Atanelov

arab girl in a car with Borya

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Shmuel Wolf

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Gelena Kirik

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Leri Gaprindashvili

militiaman

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Vladimir Gusev

Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov

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Moris Janashvili

guest at the wedding

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Nino Koberidze

conductor on the train

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Darejan Jojua

Taxi dispatcher

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Veronika Izotova

flight attendant

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Smadar Kilchinsky

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Abesalom Loria

trainmaster

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Guram Lortkipanidze

Yasha's neighbor

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Ruslan Mikaberidze

Mustafa is Turkish

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Dato Papuashvili

KGB officer

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Igor Piliev

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Israel Rubinchik

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Boris Smorchkov

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Galina Churilina

lunch lady

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Constantin Alexandrov

waiter (uncredited)

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Vladimir Korovkin

airplane pilot (uncredited)

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Evgeniy Kuleshov

man at the airport (uncredited)

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Roman Madyanov

person passing through customs control (uncredited)

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Iosif Ryklin

'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)

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Irina Shmeleva

Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)

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Amiran Amiranashvili

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Status

Released

Language

English, Georgian, Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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