Released Date:
2013-12-18
Languages:
German
Countries:
Austria, France, Germany
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2452 Reviews)
Director:
Ulrich SeidlGenres:
DramaUlrich Seidl (screenplay)
Veronika Franz (screenplay)
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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