Leave Normal Behind.
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.
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Intimate and spare.
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Elijah WoodJonathan Safran Foer
- Eugene HutzAlex
- Boris LyoskinGrandfather
- Jana HrabětovaJonathan's Grandmother
- Jonathan Safran FoerLeaf Blower
- Stephen SamudovskyJonathan's Grandfather Safran
- Oleksandr ChoroshkoAlexander Perchov, Father
- Gil KazimirovIgor
- Zuzana HodkováAlex's Mother
- Ljubomir DezeraYoung Jonathan
Crew
- Liev SchreiberDirector
- Liev SchreiberScreenplay
- Matthew LibatiqueDirector of Photography
- Paul CantelonOriginal Music Composer
- Andrew MarcusEditor
- Craig McKayEditor
- David MinkowskiProducer
- Peter SarafProducer
- Tom KarnowskiProducer
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