Feature Film

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
Release: 11.01.2013
Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
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
Funding program: ÖFI
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

Production: Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH, Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH
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