The Passport (1990)
Pasport
103 min
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.
- Release date
- June 6, 1990
- Country of origin
- Austria, France, Israel
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Cast
- Gérard Darmon as Merab Papashvili
- Natalya Gundareva as Inga - Yasha's Wife
- Oleg Yankovskiy as Borya «Paris»
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Semyon Klain «Senya»
- Evgeniy Leonov as Austria Embassy Staff
- Mamuka Kikaleishvili as Moisha Sepiashvili
- Leonid Yarmolnik as Borya's Israeli Partner
- Leo Pilpani as Vakhtang Papashvili
- Ya'ackov Ben-Sira as Inga's Uncle
- Nina Ter-Osipyan as Inga's aunt
- Sharon Hacohen as Bit Part
- Igor Kvasha as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
- Aleksandr Berda as Vasiliy Ermolenko
- Claude Aviram as waiter at the restaurant
- Amiran Amiranashvili as Suren, the taxi driver
- Shmuel Wolf
- Levan Gabriadze as Merab Papashvili's colleague
- Vladimir Gusev as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
- Gérard Darmon as Yasha Papashvili
Crew
- Georgiy Daneliya · Director
- Georgiy Daneliya · Writer
- Revaz Gabriadze · Writer
- Arkadiy Khayt · Writer
- Konstantin Aleksandrov · Writer
- Victor Freilich · Producer
- Giya Kancheli · Composer
- Vadim Yusov · Cinematographer
- Tatyana Egorycheva · Editor
- Emanuel Amrami · Production designer
- Dimitri Takaishvili · Production designer