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Roots

20051h 43mPavel Lungin

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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.

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What is Roots (2005) about?

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…

Who stars in Roots?

Roots stars Konstantin Khabenskiy (Edik), Esther Gorintin (Esther), Daniil Spivakovskiy (Tsaussami), Leonid Kanevsky (Baroukh), Sergey Garmash (Yacha). The film was directed by Pavel Lungin.

How long is Roots?

Roots has a runtime of 1 min and premiered in 2005.

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