Everything Is Illuminated
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.
- genus: Comedy, Drama
- Studio: Stillking Films, Warner Independent Pictures, Telegraph Films, Big Beach
- keyword: blindness and impaired vision, nazi, grandparent grandchild relationship, mass murder, pop culture, journey in the past, souvenir, collector, anti-semitism, photograph, closeted homosexual, gay theme, ukraine
- cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Jana Hrabětova, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen Samudovsky