EDEN IS WEST (Eden À l'Ouest) Trailer

In Australian Cinemas August 20 2009
A Sharmill Films and Jump Street Films Release

Over the course of his legendary career, Greek director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing, Music Box) has won almost every major accolade including the Academy Award®, the BAFTA, Berlin's Golden Bear and Cannes' Palme dOr. Now 76, he returns with perhaps his most personal film, and his sense of social engagement has never been stronger or more universal. The hardships suffered by illegal immigrants to Europe have been well recorded by the cinema, but EDEN IS WEST memorably captures the magical nature of the world one young man encounters where every experience is full of both promise and threat.

Just like in The Odyssey, it is in the Aegean Sea that the adventures of Elias (Riccardo Scamacio) begin. A rusting trawler packed with clandestine men, women and children slowly approaches the bright lights of an emerging shore, and we may not know where they all began but we know where they hope theyre going: the West, an actual as well as mythical place. For Elias this will literally be Eden Club Paradise, the name of the resort at which he wakes up, and his extraordinary journey from there to reach Paris takes him across a microcosm of contemporary Europe. Gavras has crafted an epic story for our times, one full of heart, humour and wondrous complexities.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Eden
• is
• West
• Costa
• Gavras
• Odyssey
• Paris
• Aegean
• Sea
• Riccardo
• Scamarcio

[vienaalina]

Φοβερή ταινία!

[yaraaki]

thelei na pei gia thn ''ithaki'' tou kathe anthrwpou pistevw pou sto telos simasia dn ehei o stohos alla to pws eftases ekei

[4september1947]

i really enjoyed this movie

[h1wa]

@Paviste93 wee was in the ship

[mananikoko]

@NathashaGB on kinobaza.ru :)

[Paviste93]

@h1wa really? what were your parts?

[h1wa]

me and my broo wee played in this film ;D

[kikkeruddabut]

0:25 :)

I didnt understand the end of this movie at all

[N7i3N]

i just saw the film last night. its not bad at all

[pikkumyy22hun]

Where are the people from who are on the boat at the very beginning and in which year is the story itself?