Operation Filmmaker (2007)
92 min
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...
- Release date
- February 20, 2008
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Alberto Bonilla as Self
- Steven Chinni as Self
- Nina Davenport as Self
- Hedwig Herzog as Self
- Eugene Hutz as Self
- Dwayne Johnson as Self
- Doug Jones as Self
- Muthana Mohmed as Self
- Justin Hamilton Salem as Self - Interviewee
- Peter Saraf as Self
Crew
- Nina Davenport · Director
- Nina Davenport · Writer
- Nina Davenport · Producer
- David Schisgall · Producer
- Sheldon Mirowitz · Composer
- Nina Davenport · Cinematographer
- Nina Davenport · Editor
- Aaron Kuhn · Editor