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Operation Filmmaker

02/20/2008

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1hr 32min

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Documentary

,Comedy

STORY

Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city's film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes Muthana's life forever. Watching in the United States, actor/director Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeling guilty about a war he opposed, Schreiber decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to work on an American movie, Everything Is Illuminated. On set, frustrated expectations complicate the relationship between Muthana and his American benefactors in what becomes a cross-cultural endeavor gone awry. Filmmaker Nina Davenport becomes increasingly entangled in the young Iraqi's life as his visa is about to expire and the threat of returning to Baghdad looms...

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Alberto Bonilla
  • Steven Chinni
  • Nina Davenport
  • Hedwig Herzog
  • Eugene Hutz

    Director

  • Nina Davenport

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Alberto Bonilla

    Self

    Steven Chinni

    Self

    Hedwig Herzog

    Self

    Eugene Hutz

    Self

    Doug Jones

    Self

    Muthana Mohmed

    Self

    Liev Schreiber

    Self

    Elijah Wood

    Self

    Dwayne Johnson

    Self

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