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Paradise: Love

Original title: Paradies: Liebe
  • 20122012
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 2h
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9.3K
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Paradise: Love (2012)
On the beaches of Kenya they‘re known as “Sugar Mamas” -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya love is a business.
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Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Ken... Read allTeresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
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9.3K
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    • Ulrich Seidl
    • Ulrich Seidl(screenplay)
    • Veronika Franz(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Margarete Tiesel
    • Peter Kazungu
    • Inge Maux
    • Ulrich Seidl
    • Ulrich Seidl(screenplay)
    • Veronika Franz(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Margarete Tiesel
    • Peter Kazungu
    • Inge Maux
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    • 30User reviews
    • 121Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
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    Ulrich Seidl in Paradise: Love (2012)
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    Inge Maux, Ulrich Seidl, Margarete Tiesel, and Peter Kazungu at an event for Paradise: Love (2012)
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    Inge Maux, Ulrich Seidl, Wolfgang Thaler, Margarete Tiesel, and Peter Kazungu at an event for Paradise: Love (2012)
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    Margarete Tiesel
    Margarete Tiesel
    • Teresa
    • (as Margarethe Tiesel)
    Peter Kazungu
    • Munga
    Inge Maux
    • Freundin von Teresa
    Dunja Sowinetz
    • Urlaubsfreundinnen
    Helen Brugat
    • Urlaubsfreundinnen
    Gabriel Mwarua
    • Gabriel
    • (as Gabriel Nguma Mwaruwa)
    Josphat Hamisi
    • Josphat
    Carlos Mkutano
    • Salama
    • (as Carlos Mukutani)
    Melanie Lenz
    Melanie Lenz
    • Tochter Teresa
    Maria Hofstätter
    Maria Hofstätter
    • Schwester Teresa
    Livingson Nyambu
    • Tourguide
    Tobias Kasiwa
    • Animateur
    Leonora Migide
    • Schwester Munga
    Anderson Mutisya
    • Stripper
    Francis Aluoch
    • Room Boy
    Kenga Randu
    • Room Boy
    Samuel Koigi
    • Freund Inge Maux
    Gabriel Lima
    • Autodromfahrer
      • Ulrich Seidl
      • Ulrich Seidl(screenplay)
      • Veronika Franz(screenplay)
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    7/10
    Loved it!
    Finally some meaningful film on the repertoire! I loved it although I found it a little bit slow, but I still gave it 7 out of 10. Life in reality is slow, so it is natural.

    So is sex. Natural! That is showing in this film. Everyone needs sex and love! So do fat Austrian women. In Austria they probably would not get any, so they have to travel to Kenya. Kenyan are so poor that it is a way to make some money. It is business! Sex tourism! There is so much of it today all over the world. Sad and funny and heartwarming at the same time.

    If you want a little bit break from Hollywood, please watch this.
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    • Jan 2, 2014

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    • Release date
      • April 26, 2013 (United States)
      • Austria
      • Germany
      • France
      • Official site (Austria)
      • Official site (Japan)
      • German
      • English
      • Swahili
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    • Filming locations
      • Flamingo Beach Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya
    • Production companies
      • Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH
      • Tatfilm
      • Coproduction Office
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    • 2 hours
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      • Dolby

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