Roots

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.

Director: Pavel Lungin

Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Esther Gorintin, Daniil Spivakovskiy, Leonid Kanevsky, Sergey Garmash, Natalya Kolyakanova, Otto Tausig, Miglen Mirtchev

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