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.

Gérard Darmon

(Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili)

Natalya Gundareva

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

Sharon Hacohen

(Jane - american journalist)

Nutsa Koguashvili

Kim Sullivan

(Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia)

Christian Fellat

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

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

Guram Lortkipanidze

(Yasha's neighbor)

Ruslan Mikaberidze

(Mustafa is Turkish)

L. Mikaeli

A. Mirzani

L. Nergul

Dato Papuashvili

Igor Piliev

Israel Rubinchik

Boris Smorchkov

Irina Fandera

Rene Khobua

((credit only))

Galina Churilina

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))

Amiran Amiranashvili (II)