Movielogr
Roots (2005)
Directed by Pavel Lungin
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.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Konstantin Khabenskiy | Esther Gorintin | Daniil Spivakovskiy | Leonid Kanevskiy | Sergey Garmash | Natalya Kolyakanova | Otto Tausig | Miglen Mirtchev | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Marina Golub | Evgeniya Dmitrieva | Aleksandr Ilin | Vladimir Salnikov | Petr Soldatov | Yelena Galibina | Marianna Shults | Mikhail Parygin | Konstantin Vorobyov