Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

106 min · Family Drama, Historie, Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film

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Directors

Liev Schreiber

Cast

Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Jana Hrabetova, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen Samudovsky, Oleksandr Choroshko, Gil Kazimirov, Zuzana Hodkova, Ljubomir Dezera, Laryssa Lauret, Tereza Veselkova, Vera Sindelarova, Lukas Kral

The story

Jonathan Safran Foer, a young American Jew, goes on a quest to Ukraine to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the Holocaust. He searches for a small town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map when the Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls. Jonathan arranges to hire Odesa-based Heritage Tours.

Catalogue themes and tags

Anti-semitism, Autorin, Bath Tub, Blindness and Impaired Vision, Car Journey, Coming to Terms With The Past, Dorfgemeinde, Erinnerung, Family History, Fear of dogs, Feuerteufel, Friendship, Glauben, Grandfather Grandson Relationship, Grandmother Grandson Relationship, Holocaust, Hotel, Hund, Identity, Jewry, Journey into the Past, Language Barrier, Mass Murder, Nazis, Passion for Collection, Photography, Pop Culture, Restaurant, River, Seeing Eye Dog, Selbstmord, Sunflower, Tour, Tourism, Translator, US-Amerikanerin, Ukraine, Vegetarian, Vernichtung einer Zivilisation, Zuhause, andenken, roadtrip, Adventure, Road movie, Family Drama, Comedy-drama, Drama, Comedy, Film adaptation

Genres

Family Drama, Historie, Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film

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