Directed by:
Costa-GavrasCinematography:
Patrick BlossierComposer:
Armand AmarCast:
Riccardo Scamarcio, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Mona Achache, Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Tukur, Anny Duperey, Michel Robin, Eric Caravaca, Antoine Monot Jr. (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
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
(Berlinale)
Cast
Riccardo Scamarcio
Italy
Best movies:
The Best of Youth (2003) (series)
Maradona: Blessed Dream (2021) (series)
My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos
Greece
Best movies:
Worlds Apart (2015)
Eden Is West (2009)
A Touch of Spice (2003)
Mona Achache
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
Juliane Köhler
West Germany
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Nowhere in Africa (2001)
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Ulrich Tukur
West Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
North Face (2008)
The White Rose (1982)
Anny Duperey
France
Best movies:
Germinal (1993)
The ComDads (1983)
Light Years (1988)
Michel Robin
France
Best movies:
Les Petites Fugues (1979)
Amélie (2001)
The Confession (1970)
Eric Caravaca
France
Best movies:
Nobody from Nowhere (2014)
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Chicken with Plums (2011)
Antoine Monot Jr.
West Germany
Best movies:
Who Am I - No System Is Safe (2014)
The Experiment (2001)
Gigantics (1999)
Konstadinos Markoulakis
Greece
Best movies:
Hardcore (2004)
Eden Is West (2009)
Siege on Liperti Street (2019)
Ieroklis Michaelidis
Greece
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
A Touch of Spice (2003)
Julie Gavras
Best movies:
The Ax (2005)
Eden Is West (2009)
Justin Blanckaert
Best movies:
Eden Is West (2009)
High Lane (2009)
Paris Pigalle (2018)
Jean-Christophe Folly
Best movies:
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Eden Is West (2009)
35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Aymen Saïdi
Best movies:
Saint-Jacques... La mecque (2005)
Paulette (2012)
The Assault (2010)
Marissa Triandafyllidou
Best movies:
Xenia (2014)
Eden Is West (2009)
10 to Midnight (1983)
Bruno Lochet
France
Best movies:
The Three Brothers (1995)
Poetical Refugee (2000)
Superwho? (2022)
Frédéric Chau
Vietnam
Best movies:
Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
Qu'est-ce qu'on a tous fait au Bon Dieu ? (2022)
Neuilly Yo Mama! (2009)
Xavier Maly
Best movies:
La Rumba (1987)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Bandits (1986)
Jean-Pierre Gos
Best movies:
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Anna's Time (2016) (TV movie)
Série noire (1984) (series)