
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.

as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

as Inga

as Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

as Semyon Klain - «Senya»

as Embassy employee in Austria

as Moisha Sepiashvili

as Borya's Israeli partner

as Vakhtang Papashvili - father

as Bernstein - Inga's uncle

as Inga's aunt

as Jane - american journalist


as Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

as Tengiz

as chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

as academician Sesershvili

as Vasiliy Ermolenko

as waiter at the restaurant

as Suren, the taxi driver


as arab girl in a car with Borya



as Merab Papashvili's colleague


as militiaman

as Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov


as guest at the wedding

as conductor on the train

as Taxi dispatcher

as flight attendant







as doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant


as trainmaster

as Yasha's neighbor

as Mustafa is Turkish




as KGB officer





as (credit only)

as lunch lady


as waiter (uncredited)

as arab with a donkey (uncredited)

as airplane pilot (uncredited)

as man at the airport (uncredited)

as person passing through customs control (uncredited)

as 'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)

as Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)

as man on a plane (uncredited)