Eden is West
2009 · Movie · 110 min. · France
A drama centered around the illegal immigrants living in the EU. As in the Iliad, the adventures of our legendless hero begin in the Aegean Sea. After many brief adventures, including a stopover in Paradise, and a brief one in Hell, his epic ends magically in Paris. A Paris that sparkles in the dreams of every wanderer’s restless sleep. The film tries to mirror these wanderings, and is the story of those – who like us or our fathers and mothers before us – crisscrossed the earth, defying the oceans and uniformed bullies, in a search of a roof over their heads.
Direction Costa-Gavras
Cast Riccardo Scamarcio · Ulrich Tukur · Juliane Köhler · Eric Caravaca · Jean-Christophe Folly · Anny Duperey · Ieroklis Michailidis · Annie Loulou · Dina Michailidou · Constatinos Markoulakis · Antoine Monot Jr. · Florian Martens · Murali Perumal
Soundtrack Armand Amar
Screenplay Costa-Gavras · Jean-Claude Grumberg
Cinematography Patrick Blossier
Original title Eden à l'ouest
6.3
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