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Everything Is Illuminated
“Leave Normal Behind.”
2005·1h 45m·🇺🇸
ComedyDrama
7.4/ 1061,407 votes
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Cast
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
Lukáš Král
Young Grandfather
?
Vera Sindelarova
Young Lista
Synopsis
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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