The Passport (1990)
Comedy
Drama
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.
Cast
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Inga
Jane - american journalist
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Tengiz
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
academician Sesershvili
Vasiliy Ermolenko
waiter at the restaurant
Suren, the taxi driver
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
arab girl in a car with Borya
Merab Papashvili's colleague
militiaman
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
guest at the wedding
conductor on the train
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Taxi dispatcher
flight attendant
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Embassy employee in Austria
trainmaster
Yasha's neighbor
Mustafa is Turkish
KGB officer
Moisha Sepiashvili
(credit only)
lunch lady
waiter (uncredited)
arab with a donkey (uncredited)
airplane pilot (uncredited)
man at the airport (uncredited)
person passing through customs control (uncredited)
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Borya's Israeli partner
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
man on a plane (uncredited)
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Inga's aunt
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