Roots

Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them - and the lech Simon - a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator - turn Letov's latest scheme into a veritable cat's cradle.

• Release date
• October 5, 2005
• Runtime
• 103 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Pavel Lungin

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy Edik Esther Gorintin Esther Daniil Spivakovskiy Tsaussami Leonid Kanevsky Baroukh Sergey Garmash Yacha Natalya Kolyakanova Regina

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Otto Tausig Samuel Miglen Mirtchev Andrew