Operation Filmmaker
2008-02-20 | 92 minutes
Plot Summary
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...
Cast
Recommendations
-
Back to the Future Part III
-
Batman Forever
-
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
-
Zombieland
-
The Batman
-
The Empire Strikes Back
-
Taken 2
-
Parasite
-
1917
-
Shrek
-
In Time
-
Shutter Island
-
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
-
World War Z
-
Inception
-
Avengers: Infinity War
-
WALL·E
-
The Matrix Resurrections
-
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
-
Suicide Squad
Similar Movies
-
Macheads
-
Poster Boy
-
Bakelite
-
The Assembly
-
Last Night
-
Diary of a Tired Black Man
-
Žižek!
-
Dating the Enemy
-
Armbryterskan från Ensamheten
-
Jack and Jill vs. The World
-
Petey & Ginger
-
200 Cigarettes
-
Bright Young Things
-
Up the Yangtze
-
CB4
-
Mexico
-
Growing Op
-
The Pixar Story
-
The Wrong Guy
-
Tomorrow's Another Day