The Passport

Movie

The Passport

Comedy

Drama

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.

Date: 06/06/1990

Rating: 6.3

Cast: Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeni Leonov, Mamuka Kikaleishvili, Leonid Yarmolnik, Levan Pilpani, Ya'ackov Ben-Sira, Nina Ter-Osipyan, Sharon Hacohen, Nutsa Koguashvili, Kim Sullivan, Christian Fellat, Igor Kvasha, Rocky Albert Nirschl, Aleksandr Berda, Claude Aviram, Amiran Amiranashvili, N. Anokhina, Mzia Atanelov, Aleksandr Brodskiy, Shmuel Wolf, Levan Gabriadze, Gelena Kirik, Leri Gaprindashvili, Vladimir Gusev, Ts. Dadiani, Moris Janashvili, Nino Koberidze, Darejan Jojua, Veronika Izotova, Smadar Kilchinsky, Sasha Klein, T. Kipiani, L. Kublashvili, Sh. Koen, B. Koen, Yuriy Kushneryov, Georgiy Kupriyanov, Abesalom Loria, Guram Lortkipanidze, Ruslan Mikaberidze, L. Mikaeli, A. Mirzani, L. Nergul, Dato Papuashvili, Igor Piliev, Israel Rubinchik, Boris Smorchkov, Irina Fandera, Rene Khobua, Galina Churilina, A. Shazar, Constantin Alexandrov, Georgiy Daneliya, Vladimir Korovkin, Evgeniy Kuleshov, Roman Madyanov, Iosif Ryklin, Irina Shmeleva, Eduard Sushkov

Gérard Darmon