Everything Is Illuminated

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Elijah Wood

Jonathan Safran Foer

Eugene Hutz

Alex

Boris Lyoskin

Grandfather

Jana Hrabětova

Jonathan's Grandmother

Jonathan Safran Foer

Leaf Blower

Stephen Samudovsky

Jonathan's Grandfather Safran

Oleksandr Choroshko

Alexander Perchov, Father

Gil Kazimirov

Igor

Zuzana Hodková

Alex's Mother

Ljubomir Dezera

Young Jonathan