The Passport (1990)
Original title: Паспорт
The Passport is a 1990 Russian-language comedy movie directed by Georgiy Daneliya, with a running time of 1h 43m. It stars Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva and Oleg Yankovskiy.
Merab, a Georgian taxi driver who mistakenly crosses into Israel while seeing off his Jewish brother, Yasha, gets stuck without documents. He gets entangled in bureaucratic nightmares, mistaken identity, and KGB plots while trying to return home.
Cast
- Gérard Darmon as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
- Natalya Gundareva as Inga
- Oleg Yankovskiy as Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Semyon Klain - «Senya»
- Evgeni Leonov as Embassy employee in Austria
- Mamuka Kikaleishvili as Moisha Sepiashvili
- Leonid Yarmolnik as Borya's Israeli partner
- Levan Pilpani as Vakhtang Papashvili - father
- Ya'ackov Ben-Sira as Bernstein - Inga's uncle
- Nina Ter-Osipyan as Inga's aunt
- Sharon Hacohen as Jane - american journalist
- Nutsa Koguashvili