Feature Film

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