Everything Is Illuminated
Summary: 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.
Release Date: November 04, 2005
Director:
Liev Schreiber
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: PG-13
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,712,337
International: $ 1,889,637
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