Paradise: Hope

Original title: Paradies: Hoffnung

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1h 32min

Melanie Lenz in Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

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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 ('Par... Read allThe 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 su... Read allThe 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... Read all

Director
- Ulrich Seidl
Writers
- Ulrich Seidl(screenplay)
- Veronika Franz(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 2 nominations

Videos3

Paradise: Hope

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Paradise: Hope US Trailer

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Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Paradies: Hoffnung (2013)

Director
- Ulrich Seidl
Writers
- Ulrich Seidl(screenplay)
- Veronika Franz(screenplay)
All cast & crew
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Paradise: Faith

6.8

Paradise: Faith

Paradise: Love

7.1

Import Export

7.1

In the Basement

6.7

In the Basement

Hundstage

7.0

Models

6.7

Safari

7.1

The Bosom Friend

7.1

The Bosom Friend

Jesus, Du weisst

6.9

Jesus, Du weisst

Animal Love

7.0

The Prom

6.3

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. —Anonymous

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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.

Connections
Follows Paradise: Love (2012)

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

Top review

6/10

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!

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Mar 19, 2014

Release date
- December 18, 2013 (United States)
Countries of origin
Official sites
- Official site (Austria)
- Official site (Japan)
Language
- German
Also known as
- Paradis: Hopp
Filming locations
- Gymnasium Sachsenbrunn, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, Austria
Production companies
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Gross US & Canada
- $6,701
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,664
- Dec 8, 2013
Gross worldwide
- $457,132

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Runtime
- 1h 32min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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