Everything is Illuminated (2005)
Leave Normal Behind.
Starring Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin
Directed by Liev Schreiber
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which 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.
Runtime: 106 min.
Rating: 7.3
DVD
Languages: English,Russian,Ukrainian
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Comedy,Drama
Keywords: grandparent grandchild relationship,mass murder,ukraine,pop culture,blindness and impaired vision,journey in the past,passion for collection,souvenir,nazi,anti semitism,photograph,closeted homosexual,gay
Cast
Jonathan Safran Foer
Alex
Grandfather
Jonathan's Grandmother
Leaf Blower
Jonathan's Grandfather Safran
Alexander Perchov, Father
Igor
Alex's Mother
Young Jonathan
Lista
Augustine
Young Grandfather
Young Lista