The Passport
Паспорт
Comedy
Drama
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.
1990-06-06
ru
Cast
Director
Georgiy Daneliya
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
Kim Sullivan as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Christian Fellat as Tengiz
Igor Kvasha as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Rocky Albert Nirschl as academician Sesershvili
Aleksandr Berda as Vasiliy Ermolenko
Claude Aviram as waiter at the restaurant
Amiran Amiranashvili (II) as Suren, the taxi driver
Mzia Atanelov as arab girl in a car with Borya
Shmuel Wolf
Levan Gabriadze as Merab Papashvili's colleague
Gelena Kirik
Leri Gaprindashvili as militiaman
Vladimir Gusev as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Moris Janashvili as guest at the wedding
Nino Koberidze as conductor on the train
Darejan Jojua as Taxi dispatcher
Veronika Izotova as flight attendant
Smadar Kilchinsky
Yuriy Kushneryov as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Georgiy Kupriyanov
Guram Lortkipanidze as Yasha's neighbor
Ruslan Mikaberidze as Mustafa is Turkish
Dato Papuashvili as KGB officer
Igor Piliev
Israel Rubinchik
Boris Smorchkov
Galina Churilina as lunch lady
Konstantin Aleksandrov as waiter (uncredited)
Georgiy Daneliya as arab with a donkey (uncredited)
Vladimir Korovkin as airplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshov as man at the airport (uncredited)
Roman Madyanov as person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Iosif Ryklin as 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Irina Shmeleva as Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)