email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

EDEN IS WEST

by Costa-Gavras

synopsis

"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

international title: Eden is West
original title: Eden à l'Ouest
country: Greece, France, Italy
sales agent: Pathé International
year: 2008
genre: fiction
directed by: Costa-Gavras
release date: FR 11/02/2009, GR 19/02/2009, IT 06/03/2009, RO 03/04/2009
screenplay: Jean-Claude Grumberg
cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Ulrich Tukur, Juliane Köhler, Eric Caravaca, Jean-Christophe Folly, Anny Duperey, Ieroklis Mihailidis, Annie Loulou
cinematography by: Patrick Blossier
film editing: Yannick Kergoat
art director: Alexandre Bancel, Kostas Papageorgiou
costumes designer: Mathé Pontanier, Ioulia Stavridou
music: Armand Amar
producer: Patrick Blossier, Manos Krezias, Michèle Ray-Gavras, Jérôme Seydoux
production: KG Productions, Pathé Films, France 3 Cinéma, Odeon, Greek Film Center, Greek Television ET-1, Nova, Pathé Renn Productions, France 3 Cinéma
distributor: Pathé Distribution, Odeon (GR), Medusa Film (IT), Odeon Cineplex (RI)

Privacy Policy