Eden Is West
- IMDb link: 1158936
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (2,839 votes)
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Costa-Gavras
- Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Lea Wiazemsky, Tess Spentzos and others
- Release date: 11 Feb 2009
- Release year: 2009
- Runtime: 110 minutes
- Country: France, Greece, Italy
- Keywords: nudist beach, illegal immigrant, alps, paris metro, paris opera, place name in title, cardinal direction in title, female rear nudity, female pubic hair, female nudity
Plot:
Elias is an immigrant in his twenties who tries to get to Europe by a boat along with other illegal immigrants. When the boat is near the Greek shores and they hope they will soon disembark, a marine patrol approaches and Elias jumps into the sea in order to avoid arrest. So do the other people in the boat. He wakes up next morning in a shore with nudists, which is not so bad after all, since he has lost some of his clothes while he was swimming for quite a few hours. He pretends to be a nudist himself, steals some clothes and he pretends he is an employee of the hotel "Eden Club-Paradise".