Operation Filmmaker
Actors: Alberto Bonilla, Steven Chinni, Nina Davenport, Hedwig Herzog, Eugene Hutz
Movie Details
- Title
- Operation Filmmaker
- Overview
- 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...
- Runtime
- 1 h 32 min
- Release Date
- 20 February 2008
- Actors
- Alberto Bonilla, Steven Chinni, Nina Davenport, Hedwig Herzog, Eugene Hutz, Doug Jones, Muthana Mohmed, Peter Saraf, Liev Schreiber, Elijah Wood, Dwayne Johnson
- Certification
- Not Rated
- Genres
- Documentary, Comedy
- IMDb
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