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The Passport (1990)
Directed by Georgiy Daneliya
Comedy, Drama · 1h 43m
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.
Cast
Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya Gundareva
Inga
Oleg Yankovsky
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Evgeni Leonov
Embassy employee in Austria
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Moisha Sepiashvili
Leonid Yarmolnik
Borya's Israeli partner
Levan Pilpani
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Nina Ter-Osipyan
Inga's aunt
S
Sharon Hacohen
Jane - american journalist
N
Nutsa Koguashvili
Crew
- Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
- Writer
- Georgiy Daneliya, Revaz Gabriadze, Arkadiy Khayt
- Director of Photography
- Vadim Yusov
- Editor
- Tatyana Egorycheva, Olga Grinshpun
- Producer
- Victor Freilich, Vladimir Dudin
Details
- Original title
- Паспорт
- Release date
- 1990-06-06
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- English, Georgian, Russian
- Countries
- France, Soviet Union, Austria, Israel
- Production
- Mosfilm, Ritm