Film

Roots

2005 · 1h 43m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

6.1

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.

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

Marianna Shults

• Pavel LunginDirector · Producer
• Gennadiy OstrovskiyWriter
• Olga VasilyevaProducer
• Mikhail KrichmanDirector of Photography
• Michel ArbatzOriginal Music Composer
• Sophie BrunetEditor

Release date

October 5, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

16+

Genres

Comedy, Drama