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Released
2005 · FILM

Everything Is Illuminated

A young Jewish American travels to a remote Ukrainian village with eccentric relatives to find the mysterious woman who saved his grandfather, battling language barriers, haunting history and their own personal ghosts along the way.

“Leave Normal Behind.”

Directed by
Liev Schreiber, Helena Frankova
Written by
Jonathan Safran Foer, Liev Schreiber
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
106 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A young Jewish American man sets out, with the assistance of quirky, distant relatives, to locate the woman who rescued his grandfather during World War II, in a Ukrainian village that was eventually destroyed by the Nazis.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 176+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Andrew MarcusShot by Matthew LibatiqueScored by Paul CantelonDesigned by Mark GeraghtySound by Tom FleischmanCostumes by Michael ClancyVFX by Vit Komrzy

Box Office

2005 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.6M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$3.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Alles ist erleuchtetde
  • Tout est illuminéfr
  • Ogni cosa è illuminatait
  • (Bulgarian)Светлината на миналото
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesSep 3, 2005
  • ItalySep 5, 2005
  • FranceSep 6, 2005
  • CanadaSep 12, 2005

Companies

ProductionWarner Independent Pictures (WIP), Telegraph Films, Big Beach, Stillking Films
DistributionWarner Independent Pictures (WIP), Warner Bros.
Special effectsThe Visual Effects Company, Universal Production Partners (UPP)
Other companiesARRI Rental, Barrandov Studios, Big Film Design

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