Eden Is West

Eden Is West (2009)

Eden à l'ouest

Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.

Date of release
2009-02-11
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (64)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama
Director
Costa-Gavras

Casting

  • Riccardo Scamarcio — Elias
  • Éric Caravaca — Jack
  • Juliane Köhler — Christina
  • Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos — L'ami d'Elias
  • Ulrich Tukur — Nick Nickelby
  • Anny Duperey — Dame à la veste
  • Léa Wiazemsky — Nina
  • Marissa Triantafyllidou — La directrice de l'Eden Club
  • Tess Spentzos — Une amie de Nina
  • Stella-Melina Vasilaki — L'hôtesse
  • Gil Alma — Bob
  • Constantine Markoulakis — Yvan

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