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Operation Filmmaker

Operation Filmmaker

Documentary

Comedy

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...

Date: 02/20/2008
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Alberto Bonilla, Steven Chinni, Nina Davenport, Hedwig Herzog, Eugene Hutz, Doug Jones, Muthana Mohmed, Peter Saraf, Liev Schreiber, Elijah Wood, Dwayne Johnson

Alberto Bonilla as Himself in Operation Filmmaker Alberto Bonilla

Steven Chinni

Nina Davenport

Hedwig Herzog

Eugene Hutz as Himself in Operation Filmmaker Eugene Hutz

Doug Jones as Himself in Operation Filmmaker Doug Jones

Muthana Mohmed

Peter Saraf

Liev Schreiber as Himself in Operation Filmmaker Liev Schreiber

Elijah Wood as Himself in Operation Filmmaker Elijah Wood

Dwayne Johnson as  in Operation Filmmaker Dwayne Johnson

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