A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinkin...
Top Cast
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Gérard DarmonMerab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
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Natalya GundarevaInga
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Oleg YankovskiyBorya - nicknamed «Paris»
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Armen DzhigarkhanyanSemyon Klain - «Senya»
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Evgeni LeonovEmbassy employee in Austria
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Mamuka KikaleishviliMoisha Sepiashvili
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Leonid YarmolnikBorya's Israeli partner
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Levan PilpaniVakhtang Papashvili - father
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Ya'ackov Ben-SiraBernstein - Inga's uncle
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Nina Ter-OsipyanInga's aunt
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Sharon HacohenJane - american journalist
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Nutsa Koguashvili
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Kim SullivanGamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
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Christian FellatTengiz
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Igor Kvashachief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
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Rocky Albert Nirschlacademician Sesershvili
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Aleksandr BerdaVasiliy Ermolenko
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Claude Aviramwaiter at the restaurant
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Amiran AmiranashviliSuren, the taxi driver
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N. Anokhina
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Mzia Atanelovarab girl in a car with Borya
AL
Aleksandr Brodskiy
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Shmuel Wolf
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Levan GabriadzeMerab Papashvili's colleague
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Gelena Kirik
LE
Leri Gaprindashvilimilitiaman
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Vladimir GusevIvan Petrovich Fyodorov
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Ts. Dadiani
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Moris Janashviliguest at the wedding
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Nino Koberidzeconductor on the train
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Darejan JojuaTaxi dispatcher
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Veronika Izotovaflight attendant
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Smadar Kilchinsky
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Sasha Klein
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T. Kipiani
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L. Kublashvili
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Sh. Koen
B.
B. Koen
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Yuriy Kushneryovdoorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
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Georgiy Kupriyanov
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Abesalom Loriatrainmaster
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Guram LortkipanidzeYasha's neighbor
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Ruslan MikaberidzeMustafa is Turkish
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L. Mikaeli
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A. Mirzani
L.
L. Nergul
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Dato PapuashviliKGB officer
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Igor Piliev
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Israel Rubinchik
BO
Boris Smorchkov
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Irina Fandera
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Rene Khobua(credit only)
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Galina Churilinalunch lady
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A. Shazar
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Konstantin Aleksandrovwaiter (uncredited)
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Georgiy Daneliyaarab with a donkey (uncredited)
VL
Vladimir Korovkinairplane pilot (uncredited)
EV
Evgeniy Kuleshovman at the airport (uncredited)
RO
Roman Madyanovperson passing through customs control (uncredited)
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Iosif Ryklin'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)