Index magazine
November-December 2004

detail of photo at left

The Scene: Prague, August 2004

The Players:
Liev Schreiber, actor, first-time director
Elijah Wood, movie star, as Jonathan
Eugene Hutz, musician/acting ingénue, as Alex
Boris Leskin, Russian charactor actor, as Alex's grandfather

The backstory: In "Everything is Illuminated," Jonathan Safran Foer's improbably funny 2002 pseudo-autobiographical bestseller, Jonathan travels to Ukraine to find the woman who may have saved his grandather from the Nazis.
     Actor Liev Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate) was determined to make a movie out of the novel, writing the screenplay and directing it himself. Elijah Wood stars as Jonathan and Gogol Bordello frontman-turned-actor Eugene Hutz plays Jonathan's Ukranian guide, Alex. Photographer Susanna  Howe visits the Prague set one day in August.

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