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Release Date:
11 February 2009 (France) more
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A drama centered around the illegal immigrants living in the EU. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Riccardo Scamarcio ... Elias - un émigré clandestin
Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos ... L'ami d' Elias
Léa Wiazemsky ... Nina - une vacancière

Tess Spentzos ... Un amie de Nina

Kristen Ross ... Une amie de Nina
Stella-Melina Vasilaki ... L'hôtesse
Gil Alma ... Bob
Eric Caravaca ... Jack - le directeur adjoint de l'Eden Club
Marissa Triandafyllidou ... La directrice de l'Eden Club (as Marisha Triantafillidou)

Konstandinos Markoulakis ... Yvan (as Konstantinos Markoulakis)
Mona Achache ... Mari-Lou
Alexandre Bancel ... Bernard

Juliane Köhler ... Christina Lisner (as Juliane Koehler)
Igor Raspopov ... Leonid

Ina Tsolakis ... La femme de Leonid
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Eden Is West (International: English title)
Paradeisos sti Dysi (Greece)
Verso l'eden (Italy)
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Runtime:
Argentina:110 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) | France:110 min
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French visa # 119541. more

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3 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Fragments, 9 June 2009
6/10
Author: kosmasp

The main character isn't only innocent and naive, but he also is portrayed as good natured as it gets. Now you could argue if that really is possible or if it really works story-wise. But you have to suspend your disbelief here early on. The movie is jumping from one scene to the next, changing many locations and therefor never really builds an emotional connection with the viewer. While the segments are nice and good, the whole experience isn't as good as the sum of it's parts.

It gets even more irritating, when almost every cliché get's played out in the story, letting the main character go through every possible roller-coaster ride an (illegal) immigrant can go through. Unfortunately it doesn't mix as well as one might think (pace and rhythm is all over the place and not in a good sense).

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