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Everything Is Illuminated

Leave Normal Behind.
Sep 5, 2005 · 1h 45m
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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.

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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
Directed by Liev Schreiber

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$7,000,000
Revenue
$3,601,974
Production
Stillking Films, Warner Independent Pictures, Telegraph Films, Big Beach
Country
US

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