Movie
Everything Is Illuminated
Adaptation film with a runtime of 106 minutes, released in 2005. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he's never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family, and he has become obsessed with a woman he's never met. The woman saved the life of his grandfather during World War II, when the Ukrainian town where he was born was destroyed by Nazi troops. Wanting to know more about the woman, Jonathan flies to the Ukraine, where with the help of a hip-hop obsessed, gold-toothed tour guide and translator named Alex (Eugene Hütz), Alex's grandfather (a chauffeur who has claimed to be blind since his wife's death, played by Boris Leskin), and a dog named Sammy Davis Junior Junior, Jonathan searches for the meaning of the present that lies buried in the past, unexpectedly shedding the same such light on the lives of those around him. Everything Is Illuminated was the first directorial assignment for acclaimed actor Liev Schreiber.
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Cast
- Elijah Wood
- Eugene Hutz
- Laryssa Lauret
- Oleksandr Choroshko
- Gil Kazimirov
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Boris Leskin
- Jana Hrabetova
- Stepan Samudovsky
- Ljubomir Dezera
- Zuzana Hodkova
- Mikki
- Robert Chytil
- Jaroslava Sochova
- Sergei Ryabtsev
- Yuri Lemeshev
- Pamela Racine
- Oleksandr Houtz
- Ludmila Kartouska
- Igor Latta
- Eugeni Marandic
- Orest Tkachuk
- Elias Bauer
- Jurij Kokyrc
- Sergei Kapitan
- Jaroslav Jurichkanc
- Igor Savivskij
- Jan Filipensky
- Bert Schneider
- Tereza Veselkova
- Lukas Kral
- Vera Sindelarova
- Stephen Samudovsky
- Matthew Stillman
- Nancy Bishop
- Andrew Marcus
- Martin Vackar
- Michael Clancy
- Liev Schreiber
- Mark Geraghty
- Matthew Libatique
- Tom Fleischman
- Craig McKay
- Paul Urmson
- Georgina Abanto
