Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 adventure/comedy/drama, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz. It was adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, and was the debut film of Liev Schreiber both as a director and as a screenwriterEverything Is Illuminated Review Channel 4..

Plot

Jonathan Foer, a young American Jewish man, goes on a quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map when the Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls. His guides are a cranky, anti-semitic grandfather, his deranged Border collie, Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., and his over-enthusiastic grandson, whose fractured command of English, passion for American pop culture, and constant chatter threaten to make the worst of every situation. But what starts out as the tour from hell turns into a meaningful journey, with an unexpected series of revelations that will change all of their livesOverview and Movie Review New York Times..

Cast

• Elijah Wood as Jonathan Safran Foer
• Eugene Hütz as Alex
• Boris Leskin as Grandfather
• Laryssa Lauret as Lista
• Zuzana Hodkova as Alex's Mother
• Elias Bauer as Goatherder
• Yuri Lemeshev as Band Member
• Pamela Racine as Drummer
• Jonathan Safran Foer as Leaf Blower