
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.
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

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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

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arab girl in a car with Borya

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Merab Papashvili's colleague

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militiaman

Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov

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guest at the wedding

conductor on the train

Taxi dispatcher

flight attendant

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doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant

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trainmaster

Yasha's neighbor

Mustafa is Turkish

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KGB officer

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(credit only)
lunch lady

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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)
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