Operation Filmmaker

Operation Filmmaker by Nina Davenport

6.50

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...

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Cast

Alberto Bonilla

Alberto Bonilla as Self

Steven Chinni

Steven Chinni as Self

Nina Davenport

Nina Davenport as Self

Hedwig Herzog

Hedwig Herzog as Self

Eugene Hutz

Eugene Hutz as Self

Doug Jones

Doug Jones as Self

Muthana Mohmed

Muthana Mohmed as Self

Peter Saraf

Peter Saraf as Self

Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber as Self

Elijah Wood

Elijah Wood as Self

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson as Self

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