Flight from Paradise

Flight from Paradise (Italian: Fuga dal paradiso, French: La Fuite au paradis, Spanish: La fuga del paraíso, German: Ausbruch aus dem Paradies) is a 1990 post-apocalyptic science fiction film co-written and directed by Ettore Pasculli. It premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival.

Flight from Paradise
Directed by	Ettore Pasculli
Written by	Ettore Pasculli Lucio Mandarà
Produced by	Luciano Luna Claudia Mori Pupi Sambati
Starring	Fabrice Josso Inés Sastre Horst Buchholz
Cinematography	Alfio Contini
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Music by	Michel Legrand
Release date	1990 (1990)

Plot

Cast

• Fabrice Josso as Téo
• Inés Sastre as Béatrice
• Horst Buchholz as Thor
• Aurore Clément as Sarah
• Jacques Perrin as Élisée
• Van Johnson as the Old Narrator
• Paolo Bonacelli as Eliah
• Lou Castel as Oleg
• Daniela Giordano as Gius
• Giovanni Visentin as Alex
• Lukas Ammann as Mait
• Barbara Cupisti as the Assassin
• Greta Vaillant

Production

A co-production between Italy, France, Spain, and Germany, the film was shot at Cinecittà during the summer of 1989, with a budget of about 6 billion lire.^[1]

Release

The film premiered at the 47th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in the Fuoridiprogramma sidebar.^[2]

Reception

A contemporary Variety review described the film as "a bizarre, incoherent sci-fi yarn", pointing out that "what remains unclear is what audience it could be destined for. At first glance a film for kids", it "has many scenes of ugly violence seemingly geared to adult viewers".^[3] Corriere della Sera's film critic Maurizio Porro noted that despite "a few seductive images" the film was "an expensive confusion".^[4]