Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
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.
Top billed cast
Elijah WoodJonathan Safran Foer
Eugene HutzAlex
Boris LyoskinGrandfather
Jana HrabětovaJonathan's Grandmother
Jonathan Safran FoerLeaf Blower- Stephen SamudovskyJonathan's Grandfather Safran
- Oleksandr ChoroshkoAlexander Perchov, Father
- Gil KazimirovIgor
- Zuzana HodkováAlex's Mother
- Ljubomir DezeraYoung Jonathan
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