Everything is enlightened (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Everything is enlightened |
| Original title | Everything is Illuminated |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | Russian , English , Ukrainian |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Liev Schreiber |
| script | Liev Schreiber |
| production |
Marc Turtletaub , Peter Saraf |
| music |
Paul Cantelon , Gogol Bordello |
| camera | Matthew Libatique |
| cut |
Andrew Marcus , Craig McKay |
| occupation | |
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Everything is Enlightened is a 2005 American film . It is based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer .
action
The American Jew Jonathan is a collector with all his soul. Everything that is dear to him comes in small plastic bags in his well-stocked collection. With the death of his grandmother, he receives a photo of his grandfather with a woman he does not know. Jonathan assumes that this woman had a relationship with his grandfather. On the back of the photograph you can find the note “Trachimbrod 1940”.
He decides to go to Ukraine to look for the village of Trachimbrod . There he hopes to find the woman in the picture. In order to be well prepared for the trip to the foreign country, Jonathan hires a team of helpers from the Jewish Heritage Tours . This turns out to be a duo of an allegedly blind grandfather, who nevertheless drives a very good car, and his grandson Alex. He should serve Jonathan as interpreter and turns out to be very creative in dealing with the English language. Jonathan hadn't expected this situation, but he started looking anyway. That turns out to be difficult, as the place was burned down by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War and has not been shown on any map since then.
criticism
The film-dienst (25/2005) called Alles is enlightened as a "[g] great novel adaptation". The result was an "intelligently and absurdly narrated road movie" that "smooths out the narrative structure of the complex original", "but exemplifies the tension in the encounter between cultures through comic situations and pointed dialogues".
Web links
- Everything is Illuminated in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Everything is Enlightened . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 446 K).
- ↑ Everything is enlightened. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .