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Venezia 5 Settembre 2005 - Multimedia - Articoli
Liev Schreiber, the New York theater and film actor, searched for his
roots while filming his directorial debut, "Everything Is Illuminated"
in contemporary Odessa and the countryside outside of Prague.
His adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2001 novel stars Elijah Wood as a
young man trying to find his grandfather's Ukrainian village. Former
Soviet screen star Boris Leskin and Ukrainian-born New York musician
Eugene Hutz play his tour guides. "They both learned Ukrainian for the
part," Schreiber said. "That's more than you could ask."
Raised in the Eastern European film tradition by his family, Schreiber
brings the absurdist humor and rhythms of the films of Milos Forman,
Dusan Makavejev and Emir Kusturica to the movie. Speaking by the phone
from the Venice International Film Festival where the film received a
20-minute ovation, Schreiber said, "I had wanted so much to make this
a European film. Jonathan and I compared stories of our grandfathers.
I wanted to show their survivors' sense of humor: If you believe your
life is excrement then you either drown in it or transcend it with
irony. That's a distinct Eastern European trait."
The Hollywood Reporter
By Anne Thompson
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