Story :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.
Cast
Gérard DarmonMerab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya GundarevaInga
Oleg YankovskiyBorya - nicknamed «Paris»
Armen DzhigarkhanyanSemyon Klain - «Senya»
Evgeni LeonovEmbassy employee in Austria
Mamuka KikaleishviliMoisha Sepiashvili
Leonid YarmolnikBorya's Israeli partner
Levan PilpaniVakhtang Papashvili - father
Ya'ackov Ben-SiraBernstein - Inga's uncle
Nina Ter-OsipyanInga's aunt
Sharon HacohenJane - american journalist
Nutsa Koguashvili
Kim SullivanGamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
Christian FellatTengiz
Igor Kvashachief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
Rocky Albert Nirschlacademician Sesershvili
Aleksandr BerdaVasiliy Ermolenko
Claude Aviramwaiter at the restaurant
Amiran AmiranashviliSuren, the taxi driver
N. Anokhina
Mzia Atanelovarab girl in a car with Borya
Aleksandr Brodskiy
Shmuel Wolf
Levan GabriadzeMerab Papashvili's colleague
Gelena Kirik
Leri Gaprindashvilimilitiaman
Vladimir GusevIvan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani
Moris Janashviliguest at the wedding
Nino Koberidzeconductor on the train
Darejan JojuaTaxi dispatcher
Veronika Izotovaflight attendant
Smadar Kilchinsky
Sasha Klein
T. Kipiani
L. Kublashvili
Sh. Koen
B. Koen
Yuriy Kushneryovdoorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Georgiy Kupriyanov
Abesalom Loriatrainmaster
Guram LortkipanidzeYasha's neighbor
Ruslan MikaberidzeMustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli
A. Mirzani
L. Nergul
Dato PapuashviliKGB officer
Igor Piliev
Israel Rubinchik
Boris Smorchkov
Irina Fandera
Rene Khobua(credit only)
Galina Churilinalunch lady
A. Shazar
Constantin Alexandrovwaiter (uncredited)
Georgiy Daneliyaarab with a donkey (uncredited)
Vladimir Korovkinairplane pilot (uncredited)
Evgeniy Kuleshovman at the airport (uncredited)
Roman Madyanovperson passing through customs control (uncredited)
Iosif Ryklin'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)