Roots

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 5, 2005

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Russia, France

Production

Canal+,ARTE France Cinéma,Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP),Karo Premiere,ONIX FIlm,Catherine Dussart Productions

Cast

Konstantin Khabenskiy,Evgeniya Dmitrieva,Miglen Mirtchev,Mikhail Parygin,Marianna Shults,Aleksandr Ilin,Natalya Kolyakanova,Otto Tausig,Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet,Vladimir Salnikovand 8 more

Director

Pavel Lungin

Writer

Gennadiy Ostrovskiy

Producer

Pavel Lungin,Olga Vasilyeva

Cinematography

Mikhail Krichman

Music

Michel Arbatz

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0464632