The Passport (1990)
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.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya
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Gérard Darmon as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili |
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Natalya Gundareva as Inga |
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Oleg Yankovskiy as Borya - nicknamed «Paris» |
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Semyon Klain - «Senya» |
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Evgeni Leonov as Embassy employee in Austria |
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Mamuka Kikaleishvili as Moisha Sepiashvili |
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Leonid Yarmolnik as Borya's Israeli partner |
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Levan Pilpani as Vakhtang Papashvili - father |
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Ya'ackov Ben-Sira as Bernstein - Inga's uncle |
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Nina Ter-Osipyan as Inga's aunt |
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Sharon Hacohen as Jane - american journalist |
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Nutsa Koguashvili as |
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Kim Sullivan as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia |
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Christian Fellat as Tengiz |
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Igor Kvasha as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue |
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Rocky Albert Nirschl as academician Sesershvili |
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Aleksandr Berda as Vasiliy Ermolenko |
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Claude Aviram as waiter at the restaurant |
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Amiran Amiranashvili (II) as Suren, the taxi driver |
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N. Anokhina as |
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Mzia Atanelov as arab girl in a car with Borya |
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Aleksandr Brodskiy as |
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Shmuel Wolf as |
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Levan Gabriadze as Merab Papashvili's colleague |
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Gelena Kirik as |
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Leri Gaprindashvili as militiaman |
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Vladimir Gusev as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov |
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Ts. Dadiani as |
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Moris Janashvili as guest at the wedding |
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Nino Koberidze as conductor on the train |
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Darejan Jojua as Taxi dispatcher |
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Veronika Izotova as flight attendant |
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Smadar Kilchinsky as |
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Sasha Klein as |
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T. Kipiani as |
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L. Kublashvili as |
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Sh. Koen as |
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B. Koen as |
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Yuriy Kushneryov as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant |
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Georgiy Kupriyanov as |
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Abesalom Loria as trainmaster |
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Guram Lortkipanidze as Yasha's neighbor |
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Ruslan Mikaberidze as Mustafa is Turkish |
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L. Mikaeli as |
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A. Mirzani as |
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L. Nergul as |
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Dato Papuashvili as KGB officer |
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Igor Piliev as |
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Israel Rubinchik as |
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Boris Smorchkov as |
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Irina Fandera as |
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Rene Khobua as (credit only) |
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Galina Churilina as lunch lady |
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A. Shazar as |
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Konstantin Aleksandrov as waiter (uncredited) |
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Georgiy Daneliya as arab with a donkey (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Korovkin as airplane pilot (uncredited) |
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Evgeniy Kuleshov as man at the airport (uncredited) |
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Roman Madyanov as person passing through customs control (uncredited) |
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Iosif Ryklin as 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited) |
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Irina Shmeleva as Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited) |
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Eduard Sushkov as man on a plane (uncredited) |
| Directing | Georgiy Daneliya | Director |
| Production | Victor Freilich | Producer |
| Production | Vladimir Dudin | Producer |
| Sound | Gia Kancheli | Music |
| Art | Dimitri Takaishvili | Production Design |
| Editing | Tatyana Egorycheva | Editor |
| Editing | Olga Grinshpun | Editor |
| Writing | Revaz Gabriadze | Writer |
| Writing | Georgiy Daneliya | Writer |
| Writing | Arkadiy Khayt | Writer |
| Camera | Vadim Yusov | Director of Photography |