Directed by:
Ulrich SeidlCast:
Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Viviane Bartsch, Johanna Schmid, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Arabel Aigner, Vanessa Ecker, Ines Götz (more)Plots(1)
The third film in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy tells the story of Melanie, an overweight 13-year-old, and her first love. While her mother, Teresa, travels to Kenya (Paradise: Love), and her aunt(Paradise: Faith) does missionary work for Jesus Christ, the teenager spends her summer vacation with other adolescents in a strictly run diet camp in the Austrian countryside. Between sports activities and nutritional counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarettes, she falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. She loves him with the unconditionality of first love, and tries in total innocence to seduce him. The doctor struggles against the guilt of this love, aware of its impossibility. Melanie had imagined her paradise differently. (Curious Films)
(more)Cast
Melanie Lenz
Best movies:
Paradise: Love (2012)
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Verena Lehbauer
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
LandKrimi (2014) (series)
Joseph Lorenz
Austria
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Die Bergretter (2009) (series)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Viviane Bartsch
Best movies:
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Models (1999)
Johanna Schmid
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Michael Thomas
Austria
Best movies:
Import/Export (2007)
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Rimini (2022)
Maria Hofstätter
Austria
Best movies:
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
A Whole Life (2023)
Import/Export (2007)
Arabel Aigner
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Vanessa Ecker
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Ines Götz
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Alexia Greimel
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Tobias Kasper
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Renee Marat
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Sebastian Mertel
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Julia Metzner
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Christoph Miko
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Katharina Ocenasek
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Samantha Schulz
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Simon Vorgatsch
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Cornelia Winkler
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)