Operation Filmmaker

Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city's film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes Muthana's life forever. Watching in the United States, actor/director Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeling guilty about a war he opposed, Schreiber decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to work on an American movie, Everything Is Illuminated. On set, frustrated expectations complicate the relationship between Muthana and his American benefactors in what becomes a cross-cultural endeavor gone awry. Filmmaker Nina Davenport becomes increasingly entangled in the young Iraqi's life as his visa is about to expire and the threat of returning to Baghdad looms...

6.5

92 min

Cast

Alberto Bonilla

as Self

Steven Chinni

as Self

Nina Davenport

as Self

Hedwig Herzog

as Self

Eugene Hutz

as Self

Doug Jones

as Self

Muthana Mohmed

as Self

Peter Saraf

as Self

Liev Schreiber

as Self

Elijah Wood

as Self

Dwayne Johnson

as Self

Director

Nina Davenport