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The Passport

1990-1h 43min
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6.1 / 10 25

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.

Directed by Georgiy Daneliya

Writers Georgiy Daneliya Revaz Gabriadze Arkadiy Khayt

Stars Gérard Darmon Natalya Gundareva Oleg Yankovskiy

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Cast

Gérard Darmon's picture in the cast

Gérard Darmon

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
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Natalya Gundareva

Inga
Oleg Yankovskiy's picture in the cast

Oleg Yankovskiy

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Semyon Klain - «Senya»
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Evgeni Leonov

Embassy employee in Austria
Mamuka Kikaleishvili's picture in the cast

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Moisha Sepiashvili
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Leonid Yarmolnik

Borya's Israeli partner
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Levan Pilpani

Vakhtang Papashvili - father
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Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Bernstein - Inga's uncle
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Nina Ter-Osipyan

Inga's aunt
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Sharon Hacohen

Jane - american journalist
Nutsa Koguashvili's picture in the cast

Nutsa Koguashvili

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