Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

09/05/2005 (US) • 1h 46m

Comedy, Drama

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.

Top Billed Cast

Elijah Wood

Jonathan Safran Foer

Boris Lyoskin

Grandfather

Jana Hrabětova

Jonathan's Grandmother

Stephen Samudovsky

Jonathan's Grandfather Safran

Oleksandr Choroshko

Alexander Perchov, Father

Zuzana Hodková

Alex's Mother


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$7,000,000.00

Revenue

$3,601,974.00

Keywords

blindness and impaired vision

nazi

grandparent grandchild relationship

mass murder

pop culture

journey in the past

souvenir

collector

antisemitism

photograph

closeted homosexual

gay theme

ukraine

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