Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

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 ('... See full summary »

Director:

Ulrich Seidl

Writers:

Ulrich Seidl (screenplay), Veronika Franz (screenplay)

Stars:

Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Melanie Lenz	...	Melanie
Verena Lehbauer	...	Verena
Joseph Lorenz	...	Arzt
Michael Thomas	...	Sporttrainer
Viviane Bartsch	...	Ernährungsberaterin (as Vivian Bartsch)
Maria Hofstätter	...	Tante Melanie
Arabel Aigner	...	Diätcamp Kind
Vanessa Ecker	...	Diätcamp Kind
Ines Götz	...	Diätcamp Kind
Alexia Greimel	...	Diätcamp Kind
Tobias Kasper	...	Diätcamp Kind
Renee Marat	...	Diätcamp Kind
Sebastian Mertel	...	Diätcamp Kind
Julia Metzner	...	Diätcamp Kind
Christoph Miko	...	Diätcamp Kind

Storyline

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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Plot Keywords:

overweight | nutrition | diet | pillow fight | girl in bra and panties | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Austria] Official site [Japan]

Country:

Austria France Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

18 December 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Paraíso: Esperanza

Filming Locations:

Gymnasium Sachsenbrunn, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, Austria

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,664, 8 December 2013, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$5,942, 3 January 2014

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH,Tatfilm,Coproduction Office

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Melanie: If you're happy and you know it, clap your fat. If you're happy and you know, clap your fat. If you're happy and you know it, and you really want to show it, if you're happy and you know it, clap your fat.

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Connections

Follows Paradies: Glaube (2012)

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Soundtracks

If you're happy and you know it
(CRS Players)
Volksweise - interpretiert von Viviane Bartsch und den Diätcamp Kindern

User Reviews

Someone did not like my first review.

We find out that Anna Maria has a niece and that she is a daughter of the women sex vacationing in Kenya. So trilogy starts to make sense.

Girls in their teens. The fat once. Fighting with pillows and talking about sex. But then the hairy Guy comes to train them and teach them how to try to loose fat. ;) I think that sending girls to the village is an idiotic thing, but girls who escaped, and went to a night club, dancing girls really gives us HOPE! I find this film weaker link of the other two. Especially the second one. Faith. Glaube. So powerful, that this one looks weaker. But it should not be underestimated. It should be watched together with other two. Very powerful trilogy!