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.
Acting
Eugene Hutz's Alex—broken English poetry in human form.
Direction
Schreiber's debut somehow balances fart jokes and genocide.
Cinematography
Golden wheat fields that'll break your heart for no reason.
Director
Liev Schreiber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eugene Hutz had never acted before; he's the real frontman of Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello.
The film adapts only one-third of Foer's novel—the 'magic realism' Ukraine sections were deemed unfilmable by Schreiber himself.
US
