Paradise: Hope

Paradise: Hope

92 mins | Drama | Feb. 8, 2013

Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Under the supervision of a tattooed trainer and a creepy doctor, the teenagers attempt to do sports during the day and secretly get drunk in the evening. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the doctor who is 40 years her senior.

Paradise: Hope

92 mins | Drama | Feb. 8, 2013

Paradise: Hope
Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Under the supervision of a tattooed trainer and a creepy doctor, the teenagers attempt to do sports during the day and secretly get drunk in the evening. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the doctor who is 40 years her senior.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Tatfilm, Société Parisienne de Production, Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
Original title Paradies: Hoffnung
Directors Ulrich Seidl
Writers Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl

Cast

Melanie Lenz

as Melanie

Joseph Lorenz

as Arzt

Verena Lehbauer

as Verena

Michael Thomas

as Sporttrainer

Vivian Bartsch

as Ernährungsberaterin

Johanna Schmid

as Hanni

Maria Hofstätter

as Tante Melanie