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.
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)
