Eden Is West (2009)
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.
- Released
- 2009-02-11
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Costa-Gavras
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 64 votes
Cast
- Riccardo Scamarcio as Elias
- Éric Caravaca as Jack
- Juliane Köhler as Christina
- Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos as L'ami d'Elias
- Ulrich Tukur as Nick Nickelby
- Anny Duperey as Dame à la veste
- Léa Wiazemsky as Nina
- Marissa Triantafyllidou as La directrice de l'Eden Club
- Tess Spentzos as Une amie de Nina
- Stella-Melina Vasilaki as L'hôtesse
- Gil Alma as Bob
- Constantine Markoulakis as Yvan