Everything Is Illuminated
Leave Normal Behind.
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9/5/2005Runtime
105 minsOverview
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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A tender and darkly comic excavation of family history and inherited trauma, following an American grandson retracing his grandfather's path through Ukraine to uncover a story of rescue buried beneath decades of silence and loss. The film moves between present-day absurdity and historical horror with surprising grace, refusing easy answers.
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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
Zuzana Hodková
Alex's Mother
Ljubomir Dezera
Young Jonathan
Laryssa Lauret
Lista
Tereza Veselkova
Augustine
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