Paradise: Hope (2013)
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.
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Domestic DistributorStrand Releasing
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Domestic Opening$2,664
Earliest Release DateMarch 15, 2013
(Austria)
Running Time1 hr 32 min
GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Ulrich Seidl | Director |
| Ulrich Seidl | Writer |
| Veronika Franz | Writer |
| Ulrich Seidl | Producer |
| Edward Lachman | Cinematographer |
| Wolfgang Thaler | Cinematographer |
| Christof Schertenleib | Editor |
| Andreas Donhauser | Production Designer |
| Renate Martin | Production Designer |
| Cast | Role |
|---|---|
| Melanie Lenz | |
| Verena Lehbauer | |
| Joseph Lorenz | |
| Michael Thomas |
