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
as Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

Natalya Gundareva
as Inga

Oleg Yankovskiy
as Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
as Semyon Klain - «Senya»

Evgeni Leonov
as Embassy employee in Austria

Mamuka Kikaleishvili
as Moisha Sepiashvili

Leonid Yarmolnik
as Borya's Israeli partner

Levan Pilpani
as Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira
as Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Nina Ter-Osipyan
as Inga's aunt