Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated

Leave Normal Behind.

7.3(781 votes)
2005
1h 46m
Comedy
Drama

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.

Production

Stillking Films, Warner Independent Pictures, Telegraph Films, Big Beach

Cast

Elijah Wood

Elijah Wood

Jonathan Safran Foer

Eugene Hutz

Eugene Hutz

Alex

Boris Lyoskin

Boris Lyoskin

Grandfather

Jana Hrabětova

Jana Hrabětova

Jonathan's Grandmother

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer

Leaf Blower

Stephen Samudovsky

Stephen Samudovsky

Jonathan's Grandfather Safran

Oleksandr Choroshko

Oleksandr Choroshko

Alexander Perchov, Father

Gil Kazimirov

Gil Kazimirov

Igor

Zuzana Hodková

Zuzana Hodková

Alex's Mother

Ljubomir Dezera

Ljubomir Dezera

Young Jonathan

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