A young Jewish American flies to Ukraine in search of his grandfather’s past. He has a photograph and the name of a village. He hires Odessa Heritage Tours, made up of a gruff old man and his English-speaking grandson. The three, plus grandfather’s deranged dog, travel in an old car from Odessa into Ukraine’s heart. Jonathan, the American, is a collector, putting things he finds into small plastic bags, so he will remember. Alex, the interpreter, is an archetypal wild and crazy guy. Alex asks the old man, “Was there anti-Semitism in the Ukraine before the war?” Will they find the village? The past illuminates everything.
Release Date: 14 October 2005Runtime: 106 min
Stars:
- Boris Leskin
- Elijah Wood
- Eugene Hutz
- Gil Kazimirov
- Jana Hrabetova
- Jaroslava Sochova
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Ljubomir Dezera
- Mikki
- Mouse
- Oleksandr Choroshko
- Robert Chytil
- Sergei Ryabtsev
- Stephen Samudovsky
- Zuzana Hodkova
Director: Liev Schreiber
