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Paradise: Hope

Paradise: Hope

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-12-18

Languages:

German

Countries:

Austria, France, Germany

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2452 Reviews)

Director:

Ulrich Seidl

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Ulrich Seidl (screenplay)

Veronika Franz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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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