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.
Release Date: 18 December 2013Runtime: 92 min
Stars:
- Alexia Greimel
- Arabel Aigner
- Christoph Miko
- Ines Götz
- Joseph Lorenz
- Julia Metzner
- Maria Hofstätter
- Melanie Lenz
- Michael Thomas
- Renee Marat
- Sebastian Mertel
- Tobias Kasper
- Vanessa Ecker
- Verena Lehbauer
- Viviane Bartsch
Director: Ulrich Seidl
