

103 minutes
6/6/1990
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.

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

Leonid Yarmolnik
as Borya's Israeli partner

Levan Pilpani
as Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
as Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Nina Ter-Osipyan
as Inga's aunt

Sharon Hacohen
as Jane - american journalist
Nutsa Koguashvili

Kim Sullivan
as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

Christian Fellat
as Tengiz

Igor Kvasha
as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

Rocky Albert Nirschl
as academician Sesershvili

Aleksandr Berda
as Vasiliy Ermolenko

Claude Aviram
as waiter at the restaurant

Amiran Amiranashvili (II)
as Suren, the taxi driver
N. Anokhina

Mzia Atanelov
as arab girl in a car with Borya
Aleksandr Brodskiy

Shmuel Wolf

Levan Gabriadze
as Merab Papashvili's colleague

Gelena Kirik

Leri Gaprindashvili
as militiaman

Vladimir Gusev
as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani

Moris Janashvili
as guest at the wedding

Nino Koberidze
as conductor on the train

Darejan Jojua
as Taxi dispatcher

Veronika Izotova
as flight attendant

Smadar Kilchinsky
Sasha Klein
T. Kipiani
L. Kublashvili
Sh. Koen
B. Koen

Yuriy Kushneryov
as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant

Georgiy Kupriyanov

Abesalom Loria
as trainmaster

Guram Lortkipanidze
as Yasha's neighbor

Ruslan Mikaberidze
as Mustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli
A. Mirzani
L. Nergul

Dato Papuashvili
as KGB officer

Igor Piliev

Israel Rubinchik

Boris Smorchkov
Irina Fandera
Rene Khobua
as (credit only)

Galina Churilina
as lunch lady
A. Shazar

Konstantin Aleksandrov
as waiter (uncredited)

Georgiy Daneliya
as arab with a donkey (uncredited)

Vladimir Korovkin
as airplane pilot (uncredited)

Evgeniy Kuleshov
as man at the airport (uncredited)

Roman Madyanov
as person passing through customs control (uncredited)

Iosif Ryklin
as 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)

Irina Shmeleva
as Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
Eduard Sushkov
as man on a plane (uncredited)

Amiran Amiranashvili (II)