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Paradise Hope

Paradise  Hope

Drama

Ulrich Seidl

Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas

2013

Austria

Open Imdb↗

Completed

English

1h 32m

2025-05-28 10:29:02

Overview

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.