Directed by:
Costa-GavrasCinematography:
Patrick BlossierComposer:
Armand AmarCast:
Riccardo Scamarcio, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Mona Achache, Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Tukur, Anny Duperey, Michel Robin, Eric Caravaca, Antoine Monot Jr. (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Everyone has a story.
The beggar who raises a bowl has a story.
The woman who sleeps drunk on the subway vent has a story.
The man who, like Charlie Chaplin, flees at the mere sight of a cop's uniform has a story.
As in the Iliad, the adventures of our legendless hero begin in the Aegean Sea. On the same sea and under the same sun and sky that witnessed the dawn of civilization.
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.
My 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.
The story of Elias is not that of Ulysses. Nor is it Jean-Claude's or mine. But I do see something of me in Elias, this stranger who is no stranger to me ... I also do see something of my eyes in the look others cast over him.
Costa-Gavras
(Berlinale)
Cast
Florian Martens
East Germany
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The Speer and Hitler: Devil's Architect (2005) (series)
Eden Is West (2009)
Perfect Couple (1998)
Zirek
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Before Snowfall (2013)
Skirt Day (2008)
Eric Wagner
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
Love Is in the Air (2013)
Halal police d'État (2011)
Guerassim Dichliev
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Eden Is West (2009)
Murali Perumal
West Germany
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Gil Demurger
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A Secret (2007)
Série noire (1984) (series)
Criminal Lovers (1999)
Jean-Claude Grumberg
Best movies:
The Ax (2005)
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Eden Is West (2009)
Bruno Paviot
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Chicken with Plums (2011)
Capital (2012)
Alain Dzukam Simo
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor (2014)
L'Art du crime (2017) (series)
Gil Alma
France
Best movies:
One Day (2011)
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Eden Is West (2009)
Léa Wiazemsky
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
Nicolas Le Floch (2008) (series)
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Olivier Chenevat
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
Anthony Zimmer (2005)
Rapt (2009)
Tasos Kostis
Greece
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
David Kruger
Best movies:
Secrets of State (2008)
Eden Is West (2009)
Navarro (1989) (series)
Dina Mihailidou
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
Uranya (2006)
A Touch of Spice (2003)