Roots
Directed by Pavel Lungin
Plot
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.
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Cast
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Edik
Esther Gorintin
Esther
Daniil Spivakovskiy
Tsaussami
Leonid Kanevsky
Baroukh
Sergey Garmash
Yacha
Natalya Kolyakanova
Regina
Otto Tausig
Samuel
Miglen Mirtchev
Andrew
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Marc-Yves
Marina Golub
Bella
Evgeniya Dmitrieva
Olga
Aleksandr Ilin
The mayor
Vladimir Salnikov
Kovchikov
Petr Soldatov
Grandpa Gritsyne
Elena Galibina
Aliona's mother