Watch The Passport (1990) Official Trailer
6.1 / 10 IMDb June 6, 1990 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.
Director
Runtime
1h 43m
Release Date
June 6, 1990
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Status
Released
Languages
English, Georgian, Russian
Country
France, Soviet Union, Austria, Israel
Producers
Cast
Gérard Darmon
as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya Gundareva
as Inga
Oleg Yankovskiy
as Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
as Semyon Klain - «Senya»
Evgeni Leonov
as Embassy employee in Austria
Mamuka Kikaleishvili
as Moisha Sepiashvili
Leonid Yarmolnik
as Borya's Israeli partner
Levan Pilpani
as Vakhtang Papashvili - father
Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
as Bernstein - Inga's uncle
Nina Ter-Osipyan
as Inga's aunt
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Sharon Hacohen
as Jane - american journalist
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Nutsa Koguashvili
Kim Sullivan
as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Christian Fellat
as Tengiz
Igor Kvasha
as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Rocky Albert Nirschl
as academician Sesershvili
Aleksandr Berda
as Vasiliy Ermolenko
Claude Aviram
as waiter at the restaurant
Amiran Amiranashvili (II)
as Suren, the taxi driver
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N. Anokhina
Production Companies
MosfilmRitm
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