Everything Is Illuminated 2005

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.

Comedy, Drama blindness and impaired vision, nazi, grandparent grandchild relationship, mass murder, pop culture, journey in the past, souvenir, collector, antisemitism, photograph, closeted homosexual, gay theme, ukraine