The Passport (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.
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- Georgiy Daneliya
Writing:
- Georgiy Daneliya
- Revaz Gabriadze
- Arkadiy Khayt
Stars:
Release Date: 1990-06-06
6.3/10
6.3/10
- Country: AT, FR, SU
- Language: Pусский | ქართული | English
- Runtime: 103
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Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Inga
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Embassy employee in Austria
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Borya's Israeli partner
Moisha Sepiashvili
Merab Papashvili's colleague
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Inga's aunt
person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Папашвили
Suren, the taxi driver
Vasiliy Ermolenko
lunch lady
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
flight attendant
conductor on the train
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Yasha's neighbor
Mustafa is Turkish
man at the airport (uncredited)
arab with a donkey (uncredited)
trainmaster
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Jane - american journalist
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Tengiz
academician Sesershvili
waiter at the restaurant
arab girl in a car with Borya
militiaman
guest at the wedding
Taxi dispatcher
KGB officer
waiter (uncredited)
airplane pilot (uncredited)
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
