Comedy ·Drama · France · 1990 · 1h 43m

The Passport

Паспорт

The Passport poster
Director
Georgiy Daneliya
Cast
Gérard Darmon as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili Natalya Gundareva as Inga Oleg Yankovskiy as Borya - nicknamed «Paris» Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Semyon Klain - «Senya» Evgeni Leonov as Embassy employee in Austria Mamuka Kikaleishvili as Moisha Sepiashvili
Crew
Vadim Yusov — Director of Photography Tatyana Egorycheva — Editor Olga Grinshpun — Editor Revaz Gabriadze — Writer Georgiy Daneliya — Writer Arkadiy Khayt — Writer
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
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Key Collaborators
Georgiy Daneliya Director Vadim Yusov Director of Photography Tatyana Egorycheva Editor Olga Grinshpun Editor Revaz Gabriadze Writer Georgiy Daneliya Writer Arkadiy Khayt Writer Victor Freilich Producer Vladimir Dudin Producer Dimitri Takaishvili Production Design
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