Feature Film

Paradise: Hope

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation in a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior- and in all innocence sets out to seduce him. "PARADISE: Hope" is a "teen camp" movie that tells of the unconditionality of first love.

The third film of the PARADISE trilogy

Data

Category: Feature Film
Financing: Majoritäre Koproduktion
Format: 35 mm
Release: 15.03.2013
Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions: 18.749
Co-production: Tat Film (DE), Société Parisienne (FR)
International funding: Eurimages, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 29.01.2020
Viewers: 27.000
Film location: 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: Melanie Lenz (Melanie), Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas, Vivian Bartsch
Production manager: Max Linder
German Title: PARADIES: Hoffnung
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), WDR/ARTE, Degeto, ARTE France