Operation Filmmaker

Operation Filmmaker

2008/02/20 • Released

Documentary
Comedy
6.5
1h 32m

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...

Director : Nina Davenport

Casts
Alberto Bonilla

Alberto Bonilla

Himself

Steven Chinni

Himself

Nina Davenport

Herself

Hedwig Herzog

Herself

Eugene Hutz

Eugene Hutz

Himself

Doug Jones

Doug Jones

Himself

Muthana Mohmed

Himself

Peter Saraf

Himself

Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber

Himself

Elijah Wood

Elijah Wood

Himself

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson

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