The Passport
Overview
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
06/06/1990
Votes
31
Popularity
0.8
Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya Gundareva
Inga
Oleg Yankovskiy
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
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
Gelena Kirik
Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman
Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani
Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding
Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train
Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher
Veronika Izotova
flight attendant
Smadar Kilchinsky
Sasha Klein
T. Kipiani
L. Kublashvili
Sh. Koen
B. Koen
Yuriy Kushneryov
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Georgiy Kupriyanov
Abesalom Loria
trainmaster
Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor
Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli
A. Mirzani
L. Nergul
Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer
Igor Piliev
Israel Rubinchik
Boris Smorchkov
Irina Fandera
Rene Khobua
(credit only)
Galina Churilina
lunch lady
A. Shazar
Konstantin Aleksandrov
waiter (uncredited)
Georgiy Daneliya
arab with a donkey (uncredited)
Vladimir Korovkin
airplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshov
man at the airport (uncredited)
Roman Madyanov
person passing through customs control (uncredited)
Iosif Ryklin
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
Irina Shmeleva
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Eduard Sushkov
man on a plane (uncredited)
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