Everything is Illuminated.
A young Jewish American flies to Ukraine in search of his grandfather's past. He has a photograph and the name of a village. He hires Odessa Heritage Tours, made up of a gruff old man and his English-speaking grandson. The three, plus grandfather's deranged dog, travel in an old car from Odessa into Ukraine's heart. Jonathan, the American, is a collector, putting things he finds into small plastic bags, so he will remember. Alex, the interpreter, is an archetypal wild and crazy guy. Alex asks the old man, "Was there anti-Semitism in the Ukraine before the war?" Will they find the village? The past illuminates everything.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (106 min.) : digital, sound, color
- Publisher: [New York City, New York] : Big Beach, [2005]
Content descriptions
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Directed by Liev Schreiber. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Elijah Wood, Jason Schwartzman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jana Hrabetova, Stephen Samudovsky, Oleksandr Choroshko. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: PG-13; disturbing images/violence, sexual content and language. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Drama. Ukraine > History > 1921-1944 > Drama. Legacies > Drama. |
Genre: | Feature films. Melodrama. Streaming video. |