The Passport
1990 · 103 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 1,271 VOTES · DIR. Georgiy Daneliya
Overview
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
Dialogue Timeline - 441 lines
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00:00:29 Marina Klain
00:04:40 Granpa. Granpa!
00:08:27 I'm sorry, my precious, forgive me. Brother leaving his homeland for good, to Israel. And we forgot to take earth from our motherland's soil.
00:12:08 Uncle Vasya, you got checkmated.
00:13:55 Oh ya?..
00:16:40 Look after our things, okay?
00:20:14 Excuse me, are you Ivan Petrovich?
00:23:57 Be a friend, sell some dollars to me?
00:27:56 Wait..Lets.. buy me a japanese vhs home videoplayer.
00:32:39 I hate those like him most of all, here they pretend to be patriots, but the moment an opportunity presents itself, they run to the other side.
00:35:58 Listen up, how about I'll sell you an idea, for five bucks? --What idea?--Your brother, who was supose to be meeting him there, in Israel?..
00:39:33 So, you don't believe in Perestroika?--Why not?
00:44:06 Excuse me, Yarmakov Vasilii Kuzmich lives here?--Yes, one moment. Vasya! Vas, someone came to you.
00:47:23 Gettahellouttahere.--Mm?--Get the hell outta here. Or I'll gnaw your nose off.
00:52:39 Well..for example, yesterday, at airdrome (airport), they gave me one hundred shakels. And what about in our, jewish place? Would anyone give one hundred shakels, at airdrome?Ha?Finger they'll give you.
00:56:32 There is Tengiz, standing next to rabbi.
01:00:00 Excuse me.--Don't listen to him, comrades! Give me a moment, I'll explain to you everything!..What?..
01:05:57 What happened? Who was screaming so much in your office?---Some..provoker came. Took a big one to get rid of him.
01:10:26 No, until they return you I will not let him go!--You hear this? Come back fast.--Smartie one. Send one thousand dollars, I'll come back fast.
01:15:11 ..Look. Well?..I'm not crying. And on my side, if I wont' return tomorrow, my father will be jailed. And how can I leave this place if they decided I'm a spy? No way. And what is left for me to do? Ha?
01:18:46 Hello?--Tsure? Hello, brotha. It's me, Merab. Tell father, urgently, that he let the tourist go. I'm already in Jordan. Calling from a cabinet of our ambassador.
01:24:34 I was sleeping. He probably stoled my truck.
01:31:45 If Senya said he will get your across the border, then he will. --Why through border..Tengiz would have send me by plane.--Legally, you won't get out from here. If person once was branded a spy, it's for life.
01:39:59 Don't shoot at me, brothers!