Roots

10/05/2005

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1hr 43min

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Comedy

,Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Konstantin Khabenskiy
  • Esther Gorintin
  • Daniil Spivakovskiy
  • Leonid Kanevsky
  • Sergey Garmash

    Director

  • Pavel Lungin

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ARTE France Cinéma
  • Canal+
  • Catherine Dussart Productions
  • Karo Premiere
  • ONIX FIlm

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Russia

LANGUAGES

  • Russian