 
                                                                103 minutos
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
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
 
                                                        Natalya Gundareva
Inga
 
                                                        Oleg Yankovskiy
Borya - nicknamed «Paris»
 
                                                        Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Semyon Klain - «Senya»
 
                                                        Evgeni Leonov
Embassy employee in Austria
 
                                                        Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Moisha Sepiashvili
 
                                                        Leonid Yarmolnik
Borya's Israeli partner
 
                                                        Levan Pilpani
Vakhtang Papashvili - father
 
                                                        Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
Bernstein - Inga's uncle
 
                                                        Nina Ter-Osipyan
Inga's aunt
 
                                                        Sharon Hacohen
Jane - american journalist
 
                                                        Nutsa Koguashvili
 
                                                        Kim Sullivan
Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia
 
                                                        Christian Fellat
Tengiz
 
                                                        Igor Kvasha
chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue
 
                                                        Rocky Albert Nirschl
academician Sesershvili
 
                                                        Aleksandr Berda
Vasiliy Ermolenko
 
                                                        Claude Aviram
waiter at the restaurant
 
                                                        Amiran Amiranashvili
Suren, the taxi driver
 
                                                        N. Anokhina
 
                                                        Mzia Atanelov
arab girl in a car with Borya
 
                                                        Aleksandr Brodskiy
 
                                                        Shmuel Wolf
 
                                                        Levan Gabriadze
Merab Papashvili's colleague
 
                                                        Gelena Kirik
 
                                                        Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman
 
                                                        Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
 
                                                        Ts. Dadiani
 
                                                        Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding
 
                                                        Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train
 
                                                        Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher
 
                                                        Veronika Izotova
flight attendant
 
                                                        Smadar Kilchinsky
 
                                                        Sasha Klein
 
                                                        T. Kipiani
 
                                                        L. Kublashvili
 
                                                        Sh. Koen
 
                                                        B. Koen
 
                                                        Yuriy Kushneryov
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
 
                                                        Georgiy Kupriyanov
 
                                                        Abesalom Loria
trainmaster
 
                                                        Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor
 
                                                        Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish
 
                                                        L. Mikaeli
 
                                                        A. Mirzani
 
                                                        L. Nergul
 
                                                        Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer
 
                                                        Igor Piliev
 
                                                        Israel Rubinchik
 
                                                        Boris Smorchkov
 
                                                        Irina Fandera
 
                                                        Rene Khobua
(credit only)
 
                                                        Galina Churilina
lunch lady
 
                                                        A. Shazar
 
                                                        Konstantin Aleksandrov
waiter (uncredited)
 
                                                        Georgiy Daneliya
arab with a donkey (uncredited)
 
                                                        Vladimir Korovkin
airplane pilot (uncredited)
 
                                                        Evgeniy Kuleshov
man at the airport (uncredited)
 
                                                        Roman Madyanov
person passing through customs control (uncredited)
 
                                                        Iosif Ryklin
'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)
 
                                                        Irina Shmeleva
Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)
 
                                                        Eduard Sushkov
man on a plane (uncredited)
 
                                                        Amiran Amiranashvili