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Everything Is Illuminated

2005·1h 46m·PG-13
DramaComedy
IMDb Rating
★ 7.4/10
61,444 votes
Metascore
58
Metacritic

A young Jewish American man, with the help of an eccentric local, endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 drama comedy movie directed by Liev Schreiber, starring Boris Lyoskin, Eugene Hutz, Elijah Wood. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.4/10 from 61,444 votes and runs 1h 46m.

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Director
Liev Schreiber
Stars
Boris Lyoskin
Eugene Hutz
Elijah Wood
Jonathan Safran Foer
Details
2005-11-04
106 min
Movie
PG-13
★ United States
★ English, Russian, Ukrainian
Keywords
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