
1h 43m
1990-06-06
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 thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
Georgiy Daneliya
Duration: 1h 43m
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0

Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

Inga

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

Semyon Klain - «Senya»

Embassy employee in Austria

Moisha Sepiashvili

Borya's Israeli partner

Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Inga's aunt

Jane - american journalist


Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

Tengiz

chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

academician Sesershvili

Vasiliy Ermolenko

waiter at the restaurant

Suren, the taxi driver


arab girl in a car with Borya



Merab Papashvili's colleague


militiaman

Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov


guest at the wedding

conductor on the train

Taxi dispatcher

flight attendant







doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant


trainmaster

Yasha's neighbor

Mustafa is Turkish




KGB officer





(credit only)

lunch lady


waiter (uncredited)

arab with a donkey (uncredited)

airplane pilot (uncredited)

man at the airport (uncredited)

person passing through customs control (uncredited)

'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)

Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)

man on a plane (uncredited)
