

The Passport
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
Georgiy DaneliyaCast

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