Summaries

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • overweight
  • austria
  • 13 year old
  • fat camp
  • stethoscope
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Feb 21, 2013
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Unrated
Countries of origin Germany France Austria
Language English German
Filming locations Gymnasium Sachsenbrunn, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, Austria
Production companies Tatfilm Coproduction Office Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH

Box office

Gross US & Canada $6701
Opening weekend US & Canada $2664
Gross worldwide $457132

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 32m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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