Roots
(2005)
★ 4.9 IMDb · 13 votes
Year: 2005
Runtime: 103 мин
Country: France, Russia
Director: Павел Лунгин
Cast: Константин Хабенский, Esther Gorintin, Даниил Спиваковский, Леонид Каневский, Сергей Гармаш, Наталья Коляканова, Otto Tausig, Miglen Mirtchev, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Марина Голуб
Plot
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.