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.
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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 as
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 as Suren, the taxi driver
N. Anokhina as
Mzia Atanelov as arab girl in a car with Borya
Aleksandr Brodskiy as
Shmuel Wolf as
Levan Gabriadze as Merab Papashvili's colleague
Gelena Kirik as
Leri Gaprindashvili as militiaman
Vladimir Gusev as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani as
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 as
Sasha Klein as
T. Kipiani as
L. Kublashvili as
Sh. Koen as
B. Koen as
Yuriy Kushneryov as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Georgiy Kupriyanov as
Abesalom Loria as trainmaster
Guram Lortkipanidze as Yasha's neighbor
Ruslan Mikaberidze as Mustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli as
A. Mirzani as
L. Nergul as
Dato Papuashvili as KGB officer
Igor Piliev as
Israel Rubinchik as
Boris Smorchkov as
Irina Fandera as
Rene Khobua as (credit only)
Galina Churilina as lunch lady
A. Shazar as
Constantin Alexandrov 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 as
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