Operation Filmmaker

Operation Filmmaker (2007)

  • 90% of critics liked it
    (31 reviews)

  • 74% of users liked it
    (512 ratings)

Touched by the plight of an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker whose dreams of working in Hollywood seemed to fall with Baghdad, American filmmaker Liev Schreiber invites the ambitious wannabe director to intern on Everything Is Illuminated, to unexpected results. In 2004, just one year after the United… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Documentary, Television, Special Interest
In Theaters
Jun 4, 2008 Wide
Icarus Films

Critic Reviews

  • Mark Rahner, Seattle Times

    If learning about other cultures shows that we're all basically alike, Operation Filmmaker is a reminder that foreign countries have their own share of nitwits, too.

  • Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

    What might have been a vanity project emerges as a surprisingly complicated morality tale.

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    Everyone here comes out smelling bad -- that's why the film's so good.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop.

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    An exit strategy in Iraq? This self-aware study shows how hard it'll be.

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  • William G


    Fascinating doc on a fledgling filmmaker squandering opportunity and stranded by global politics.

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