The Passport

The Passport

1990•1h 43m•6.0/10

ComedyDrama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(30)

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.

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Production

Mosfilm, Ritm

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Gérard Darmon

Gérard Darmon

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

Natalya Gundareva

Natalya Gundareva

Inga

Oleg Yankovskiy

Oleg Yankovskiy

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Semyon Klain - «Senya»

Evgeni Leonov

Evgeni Leonov

Embassy employee in Austria

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Moisha Sepiashvili

Leonid Yarmolnik

Leonid Yarmolnik

Borya's Israeli partner

Levan Pilpani

Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Nina Ter-Osipyan

Nina Ter-Osipyan

Inga's aunt

Sharon Hacohen

Sharon Hacohen

Jane - american journalist

Nutsa Koguashvili

Kim Sullivan

Kim Sullivan

Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

Christian Fellat

Christian Fellat

Tengiz

Igor Kvasha

Igor Kvasha

chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

Rocky Albert Nirschl

Rocky Albert Nirschl

academician Sesershvili

Aleksandr Berda

Aleksandr Berda

Vasiliy Ermolenko

Claude Aviram

Claude Aviram

waiter at the restaurant

Amiran Amiranashvili (II)

Amiran Amiranashvili (II)

Suren, the taxi driver

N. Anokhina

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