Paradise: Love

On the beaches of Kenya they're known as Sugar Mamas: European women to whom black beach boys offer sex to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old from Austria, travels as a sex tourist to this vacation paradise in search of love. She goes from one beach boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next. The first film in Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy tells of older women and young men, of Europe and Africa, and of the exploited, who have no choice but to victimize other victims.
The first film of the PARADISE trilogy
Data
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- 35 mm
- Release
- 30.11.2012
- Distribution
- Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
- Admissions
- 48.962
- Co-production
Tat Film (DE), Société Parisienne (FR)
- International funding
Eurimages, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg
- Festivals & Awards (Selection)
65th Festival of Cannes: Official Selection (Paradise: Love)
- Funding program
- ÖFI
- first run on ORF1 Austrian Broadcasting Service
- 01.02.2018
- Viewers
- 34.000
- Film location
- Kenia, Vienna, 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
- Margarete Tiesel (Teresa), Inge Maux (Teresas Freundin), Peter Kazungu, Carlos Mkutano und Gabriel Mwarua (Beachboys)
- Production manager
- Max Linder
- German Title
- PARADIES: Liebe
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), WDR/ARTE, Degeto, ARTE France
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