On screen
Cast
62 credited performers
Gérard Darmon
Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili
Natalya Gundareva
Inga
Oleg Yankovsky
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
Character not listed
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 (II)
Suren, the taxi driver
N. Anokhina
Character not listed
Mzia Atanelov
arab girl in a car with Borya
Aleksandr Brodskiy
Character not listed
Shmuel Wolf
Character not listed
Levan Gabriadze
Merab Papashvili's colleague
Gelena Kirik
Character not listed
Leri Gaprindashvili
militiaman
Vladimir Gusev
Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov
Ts. Dadiani
Character not listed
Moris Janashvili
guest at the wedding
Nino Koberidze
conductor on the train
Darejan Jojua
Taxi dispatcher
Veronika Izotova
flight attendant
Smadar Kilchinsky
Character not listed
Sasha Klein
Character not listed
T. Kipiani
Character not listed
L. Kublashvili
Character not listed
Sh. Koen
Character not listed
B. Koen
Character not listed
Yuriy Kushneryov
doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant
Georgiy Kupriyanov
Character not listed
Abesalom Loria
trainmaster
Guram Lortkipanidze
Yasha's neighbor
Ruslan Mikaberidze
Mustafa is Turkish
L. Mikaeli
Character not listed
A. Mirzani
Character not listed
L. Nergul
Character not listed
Dato Papuashvili
KGB officer
Igor Piliev
Character not listed
Israel Rubinchik
Character not listed
Boris Smorchkov
Character not listed
Irina Fandera
Character not listed
Rene Khobua
(credit only)
Galina Churilina
lunch lady
A. Shazar
Character not listed
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)