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.
Unfortunately the movie Roots is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Pavel Lungin | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anna Bartuli | Costume Assistant |
| Writing | Gennadiy Ostrovskiy | Writer |
| Camera | Mikhail Krichman | Director of Photography |
| Production | Olga Vasilyeva | Producer |
| Editing | Sophie Brunet | Editor |
| Production | Pavel Lungin | Producer |
| Sound | Stéphane Albinet | Sound Director |
| Sound | Michel Arbatz | Music |
| Sound | Alain Curvelier | Sound Director |
| Production | Tatyana Maksakova | Casting Director |
| Production | Juliette Denis | Casting Director |
| Production | Gérard Moulévrier | Casting Director |
| Camera | Eugeny Mayorov | Additional Director of Photography |
