

The Passport
61%
31 TMDB ratings
Directed by Georgiy Daneliya
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 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)
Crew
Details
- Release date
- June 6, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
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