Synopsis
Just like in The Odyssey, it is in the Aegean Sea where begins the adventure that Elias, our hero without a legend, will experience.
On this same sea, under the same sun and the same sky as at the beginning of civilization. After many incidents and eventful moments, including a stopover in Paradise and a short stay in Hell, his epic story magically finishes in Paris. This Paris where all wanderers see their deepest dreams shine in uncertain sleep.
Eden is West attempts to echo wandering, the story of those - what we, or our mothers and fathers were yesterday - whom cross the earth, brave oceans and uniforms in the search of a roof over their heads.
Elias's story is not that of Ulysses, or that of Jean-Claude, neither is it mine.
But I recognize myself in Elias, this stranger who is not unfamiliar to me. - Costa-Gavras
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (32)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : KG Productions
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Pathé Production
- Foreign production companies : Novo RPI, Medusa, Greek Film Centre / Centre du cinéma grec, Ert tv, Odeon Entertainment (Greece)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Films
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producer : Michèle Ray Gavras
- Assistant Director : Joseph Rapp
- Foreign Producer : Manos Krezias
- Sound Recordist : Thanassis Arvanitis
- Screenwriters : Costa Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Co-producer : Jérôme Seydoux
- Director of Photography : Patrick Blossier
- Production manager : Florence Masset
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Editor : Yannick Kergoat
- Continuity supervisor : Angeliki Arvanitis
- Production Designers : Alexandre Bancel, Konstantinos Papageorgiou
- Music Composer : Armand Amar
- Casting : Marie-France Michel
- Costume designers : Mathé Pontanier, Ioulia Stavridou
- Sound Mixer : Thomas Gauder
- Location manager : Laurence Lafiteau
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy, Greece
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy, Greece)
- Production year : 2008
- French release : 11/02/2009
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 119.541
- Visa issue date : 22/01/2009
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
- Rating restrictions : None
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