Film
Roots
France · Russia- Age rating
- 16+
- Director
- Pavel Lungin
- Year
- 2005
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.
Top 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
Alexander Ilin
The mayor
Vladimir Salnikov
Kovchikov
Petr Soldatov
Grandpa Gritsyne
Elena Galibina
Aliona's mother
Marianna Shults
Mikhail Parygin
Miroslav
Konstantin Vorobyov
Directed by
Pavel Lungin
Written by
Gennadiy Ostrovskiy
Produced by
Olga Vasilyeva, Pavel Lungin