Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

2005 · 105 min · 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.

Directed by Liev Schreiber. Starring Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Lyoskin, Jana Hrabětova and Jonathan Safran Foer.

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