Everything Is Illuminated

Leave Normal Behind.

Plot Summary

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.

7.3 /10

2005

US

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blindness and impaired vision

nazi

grandparent grandchild relationship

mass murder

pop culture

journey in the past

souvenir

collector

antisemitism

photograph

closeted homosexual

gay theme

ukraine