Film Synopsis
For those who are interested in discovering their origins, what could
be more rational than making use of an agency specialising in this
field? Baruk, Andrew, Irène and Samuel are four people
who, living on different sides of the world, are keen to find out
something about their ancestors. Edik Letov offers to provide
this service, for a modest fee, although what his clients do not know
is that he is a shameless con artist. His plan is to recruit
several people in a small town in Ukraine to pretend to be distant
relatives of his clients. It sounds like a foolproof scam...
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Film Credits
- Director: Pavel Lungin
- Script: Gennadi Ostrovsky
- Cinematographer: Mikhail Krichman
- Music: Michelle Arbatz
- Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy (Edik),
Leonid Kanevsky (Baroukh),
Sergey Garmash (Yacha), Natalya Kolyakanova (Regina),
Esther Gorintin (Esther), Otto Tausig (Samuel),
Miglen Mirtchev (Andrew), Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet (Marc-Yves),
Marina Golub (Bella),
Daniil Spivakovskiy (Tsaussami),
Aleksandr Ilin (The mayor),
Pyotr Soldatov (Grandpa Gritsyne),
Elena Garibina (Aliona's mother),
Evgeniya Dmitrieva (Olga),
Mikhail Porygin (Miroslav),
Vladimir Salnikov (Kovchikov),
Filipp Ivanchenko (Sacha),
Yekaterina Kibovskaya (Aliona)
- Country: France / Russia
- Language: French / Yiddish / Russian / English
- Support: Color
- Runtime: 103 min
- Aka: Roots ;
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