Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Ulrich Seidl
Written : Ulrich Seidl Veronika Franz
Stars : Michael Thomas Melanie Lenz Verena Lehbauer Joseph Lorenz
Genres : Drama
Release date : Feb 21, 2013
Countries of origin : Germany France Austria
Official sites : Official site Official site
Language : English German
Filming locations : Gymnasium Sachsenbrunn, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, Austria
Production companies : Tatfilm Coproduction Office Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Feb 21, 2013
Countries of origin : Germany France Austria
Official sites : Official site Official site
Language : English German
Filming locations : Gymnasium Sachsenbrunn, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, Austria
Production companies : Tatfilm Coproduction Office Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH
