Description:
The third installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, Paradise: Hope tells the story of overweight 13-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (Paradise: Love) and her aunt (Paradise: Faith) does missionary work, Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently. [Strand Releasing]
Production Company
Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH,
Tatfilm,
Coproduction Office,
ARD Degeto Film,
ARTE,
ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen,
WDR/Arte
Release Date Dec 6, 2013
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Unrated
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