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Synopsis

A young Jewish American, Jonathan Safran Foer (Elijah Wood - The Lord Of The Rings trilogy), travels to the Ukraine in hopes of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis during World War II. Jonathan is aided in his search by Alex Perchov (Ukranian-born singer Eugene Hutz), a naïve Ukrainian student who serves as Jonathan's translator; Alex's grandfather (Boris Leskin), also named Alex; and the old man's flatulent seeing-eye dog, Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior.

As this motley group of seekers journeys across Eastern Europe's devastated landscape, disturbing facts about Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity are unearthed, and these discoveries profoundly affect the lives of all when Everything Is Illuminated.

Based on the book Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Release: 2005
Running Time: 101 min

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  1. Jill G Jill G

    astounding

    03 October 2009
    I did not know this story...a book I did not know it but I will read it...I thought this looks like a quirky movie and it was and yet so much more. My face is wet my eyes sore. The impermanance of things the detritous of life seemed so pointless to me even though I have always been compelled to be a collector of such things ...ticket stubbs, hair, notes, coins, pebbles all the bits and bobs of the moments of my life and those I love. But I always thought that it was the moments and the people that were more important and I would not miss the bits and bobs. Of course if they were all lost tomorrow I would grieve but I would still be me I would still hold those moments of them without the collection. Perhaps it is the act of collecting that is so powerful and not the actual pieces collected. Could it be the finding and claiming and holding of real objects that makes life real and the past so present in our lives. I take photographs of all my experinces in life, of all the moments that matter....I recently lost the majority of this photographic collection to hard drive failure...I cried inconsolably but I knew I would have to let them go and not live in that moment of pain and instead hold those moments in my heart and head instead of my hard drive. I wondered what Johnathan would have done if his collection was lost as mine was...would he have cried...and would his life not be better if he let all that stuff go. I think his collection must be a metaphor for the collective memory of the Jewish people and the fragments of memory passed from one generation to the next that is being referred too ...and of course everyones lives would have been better if it had never happened (I for one would have had a grandfather that I could have known and loved in person) but it did happen .....and so the collection continues...continues to collect inside the hearts and heads of all those touched by it......for always not forgotten.
  2. Sam S Sam S

    Extraordinarily powerful

    06 December 2008
    Liev Schreiber’s adaptation manages to capture the feel and atmosphere of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel without rigidly sticking to the structure, and without feeling the need to include every detail that made the book such a success. A young Jewish American (Elijah Wood) travels to the Ukraine to search for the woman who possibly saved his grandfather’s life during World War II. He is assisted by his translator Alex, one of the great comic characters of the last few years, whose broken english provides much of the amusement. By no means is the film a comedy however, and a quality that it manages to retain from the novel is the ability to leave the viewer crying with laughter one minute, and then simply crying the next. Extraordinaily powerful, the film was somewhat overlooked upon its release, but it is highly recommended for those who have and haven't read the novel.

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