Roots
4.5 8

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.

  • Released: 2005-10-05
  • Runtime: 103 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Esther Gorintin, Daniil Spivakovskiy, Leonid Kanevsky, Sergey Garmash, Otto Tausig, Natalya Kolyakanova, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Marina Golub, Miglen Mirtchev, Aleksandr Ilin, Vladimir Salnikov, Elena Galibina, Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Mikhail Parygin, Konstantin Vorobyov, Marianna Shults
  • Director: Pavel Lungin