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Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
64 audience votes
Key crew
- Costa-GavrasDirector
- Jean-Claude GrumbergWriter
- Armand AmarOriginal Music Composer
- Costa-GavrasWriter
Cast
- Riccardo ScamarcioElias
- Éric CaravacaJack
- Juliane KöhlerChristina
- Odysseas PapaspiliopoulosL'ami d'Elias
- Ulrich TukurNick Nickelby
- Anny DupereyDame à la veste
- Léa WiazemskyNina
- Marissa TriantafyllidouLa directrice de l'Eden Club
- Tess SpentzosUne amie de Nina
- Stella-Melina VasilakiL'hôtesse
- Gil AlmaBob
- Constantine MarkoulakisYvan