# Italian ? French ? movie where man wakes up on a nudist Beach?

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**Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 7:37am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/italian-french-movie-where-man-wakes-up-on-a-nudist-beach/7981/1 "2024-08-28T07:37:30Z")

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Im Looking for the name of an Old ethnic movie italian ?? French ?? movie where man wakes up on a nudist Beach ??? the movie make year is most likely between 1970 - 1995 .

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 9:07am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/italian-french-movie-where-man-wakes-up-on-a-nudist-beach/7981/2 "2026-04-25T09:07:01Z")

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“Eden is West” (2009), also known as “Eden à l’Ouest”

IMDb link:

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158936/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158936/)

Quote from the below detailed Wikipedia plot summary:  
”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,** ”

Detailed Wikipedia plot summary:

> **[Eden Is West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Is_West)**
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> Eden Is West (French: Eden à l'ouest) is a 2009 film by Greek-French director Costa-Gavras about an illegal immigrant called Elias who tries to get to Paris. The original title in Greek is "Paradissos sti Dysi" ("Paradise in West").
> The nationality of the main character hero is not disclosed during the film, Gavras wanted to make a point about illegal immigrants of any nationality, since he himself was an immigrant.
> The film had its world premiere out of the competition at the 59th Berlin Inte...

Here is a trailer to the movie on YouTube, at the 0:21 mark starts the scene where the guy wakes up on a nudist beach:

[![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7a6b5ba3f9182f54d443b8f7a77f517cb0ee2c84.jpeg "EDEN IS WEST (Eden À l'Ouest) Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adlunG3nxds)