Everything Is Illuminated

2005 7.3 (774 votes) 1h 46m

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Genres

Comedy Drama

Production Companies

Stillking Films
Warner Independent Pictures
Telegraph Films
Big Beach

Leave Normal Behind.

Overview

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

Key Crew

Director: Liev Schreiber

Producer: Kelley Cribben, Tom Karnowski, David Minkowski, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub

Screenplay: Liev Schreiber

Director of Photography: Matthew Libatique

Top Cast

Elijah Wood

Jonathan Safran Foer

Eugene Hutz

Alex

Boris Lyoskin

Grandfather

Jana Hrabětova

Jonathan's Grandmother

Jonathan Safran Foer

Leaf Blower

Stephen Samudovsky

Jonathan's Grandfather Safran

Oleksandr Choroshko

Alexander Perchov, Father

Gil Kazimirov

Igor

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