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Movies - Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005
adventure
/comedy
/Drama film
, written and directed by Liev Schreiber
and starring Elijah Wood
. It is based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Plot

  • Tagline: Leave normal behind.
A young American Jewish man goes on a quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. His guides are a cranky grandfather and his over-enthusiastic grandson, whose fractured command of English, passion for American pop culture, and inability to shut up threaten to make the worst of every situation. But what starts out as the tour from hell turns into a meaningful journey, with an unexpected series of revelations that will change all of their lives.

Trivia

Although the film is set in the Ukraine, all non-English dialogue is in Russian rather than Ukrainian. This is understandable to a point, the main characters of Alex and his grandfather being from the primarily Russian-speaking city of Odessa, but there are some interesting linguistic crossover moments - such as a peasant woman who has a large collection of boxes in her house all labelled in Ukrainian, but only seems to speak Russian.

Criticism

Some criticise the book and film's portrayal of Ukrainian gentiles as one-sided, although the author makes it clear that many Ukrainians were brutally coerced into collaboration with the Nazis.

Cast

  • Elijah Wood
    – Jonathan
  • Eugene Hütz – Alex
  • Boris Leskin – Alex's Grandfather

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