
Paradise: Faith

In "PARADISE: Faith" Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to carry the cross. For Anna Maria, a single Austrian in her 50s, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot high statue of the Virgin Mary. One day, when after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home, her life goes off its rails.
The second film of the PARADISE trilogy
Data
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- 35 mm
- Admissions
- 32.999
- Co-production
Tat Film (DE), Société Parisienne (FR)
- International funding
Eurimages, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg
- Festivals & Awards (Selection)
69. Internationales Filmfestival von Venedig (September 2012): SPEZIALPREIS DER JURY
- first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 09.09.2018
- Viewers
- 55.000
- Film location
- Kenia, Austria
- Shooting time
- October 2009 - September 2010
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich
Credits
- Producer Austria
- Ulrich Seidl
- Director
- Ulrich Seidl
- Script
- Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
- DOP
- Wolfgang Thaler, Ed Lachman
- Editor
- Christof Schertenleib
- Sound engineer
- Ekkehart Baumung
- Costume design
- Tanja Hausner
- Set design
- Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser
- Cast
- Maria Hofstätter (Anna Maria), Nabil Saleh (Annas Ehemann)
- Production manager
- Max Linder
- German Title
- PARADIES: Glaube
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), WDR/ARTE, Degeto, ARTE France
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