
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

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 as
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