Merab Papashvili/Yasha Papashvili

Gérard Darmon

Inga

Natalya Gundareva

Borya - nicknamed «Paris»

Oleg Yankovskiy

Semyon Klain - «Senya»

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Embassy employee in Austria

Evgeni Leonov

Moisha Sepiashvili

Mamuka Kikaleishvili

Borya's Israeli partner

Leonid Yarmolnik

Vakhtang Papashvili - father

Levan Pilpani

Bernstein - Inga's uncle

Ya'ackov Ben-Sira

Inga's aunt

Nina Ter-Osipyan

Jane - american journalist

Sharon Hacohen

Gamlet - Tengiz's companion from Murumbia

Kim Sullivan

Tengiz

Christian Fellat

chief rabbi of the Moscow synagogue

Igor Kvasha

academician Sesershvili

Rocky Albert Nirschl

Vasiliy Ermolenko

Aleksandr Berda

waiter at the restaurant

Claude Aviram

Suren, the taxi driver

Amiran Amiranashvili (II)

arab girl in a car with Borya

Mzia Atanelov

Shmuel Wolf

Merab Papashvili's colleague

Levan Gabriadze

Gelena Kirik

militiaman

Leri Gaprindashvili

Ivan Petrovich Fyodorov

Vladimir Gusev

guest at the wedding

Moris Janashvili

conductor on the train

Nino Koberidze

Taxi dispatcher

Darejan Jojua

flight attendant

Veronika Izotova

Smadar Kilchinsky

doorman in a Moscow hotel restaurant

Yuriy Kushneryov

Georgiy Kupriyanov

trainmaster

Abesalom Loria

Yasha's neighbor

Guram Lortkipanidze

Mustafa is Turkish

Ruslan Mikaberidze

KGB officer

Dato Papuashvili

Igor Piliev

Israel Rubinchik

Boris Smorchkov

lunch lady

Galina Churilina

waiter (uncredited)

Konstantin Aleksandrov

arab with a donkey (uncredited)

Georgiy Daneliya

airplane pilot (uncredited)

Vladimir Korovkin

man at the airport (uncredited)

Evgeniy Kuleshov

person passing through customs control (uncredited)

Roman Madyanov

'Sokhnut' employee in Vienna Austria (uncredited)

Iosif Ryklin

Vasily's neighbor girl (uncredited)

Irina Shmeleva