
The Terminal(2004)
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.


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.

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
The Passport is a comedy, drama film released in 1990 exploring themes of passport. Directed by Georgiy Daneliya, it stars Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy. 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.
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