Russia / Jun 06, 1990
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
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.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Levan Pilpani | Vakhtang Papashvili - father |
| Ya'ackov Ben-Sira | Bernstein - Inga's uncle |
| Nina Ter-Osipyan | Inga's aunt |
| Sharon Hacohen | Jane - american journalist |
| Nutsa Koguashvili | |
| Kim Sullivan | Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia |
| Christian Fellat | Tengiz |
| Igor Kvasha | chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue |
| Rocky Albert Nirschl | academician Sesershvili |
| Aleksandr Berda | Vasiliy Ermolenko |
| Claude Aviram | waiter at the restaurant |
| Amiran Amiranashvili (II) | Suren, the taxi driver |
| N. Anokhina | |
| Mzia Atanelov | arab girl in a car with Borya |
| Aleksandr Brodskiy | |
| Shmuel Wolf | |
| Levan Gabriadze | Merab Papashvili's colleague |
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Genres
ComedyDrama
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Паспорт |
| Original language | Pусский (RU) |
| Spoken languages | English, ქართული, Pусский |
| Production countries | France, Soviet Union, Austria, Israel |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Mosfilm, Ritm |
| Release date | 6 giugno 1990 |
| Production | Victor Freilich, Vladimir Dudin |
| Writer | Georgiy Daneliya, Revaz Gabriadze, Arkadiy Khayt |
| Editing | Tatyana Egorycheva, Olga Grinshpun |
| Cinematography | Vadim Yusov |
| Assistant directors | Georgiy Daneliya |
| Camera operators | Vadim Yusov |
| Additional photography | Vadim Yusov |
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| Production design | Dimitri Takaishvili |
| Art direction | Dimitri Takaishvili |
| Set decoration | Dimitri Takaishvili |
| Music | Gia Kancheli |
| Sound | Gia Kancheli |
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