Paradies: Hoffnung
Paradise: Hope- Director
- Ulrich Seidl
- Country
- Austria, France, Germany, United kingdom
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
- Cast
- Melanie Lenz, Vivian Bartsch, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas
- Production
- Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
http://www.paradies-trilogie.de/
Storyline
Her mother goes off to Kenya in search of beach boys willing to provide her with amorous services. Her staunchly Catholic aunt is absorbed in house-to-house evangelism. Thus, thirteen-year-old Melanie spends the holidays in a dietcamp in the Austrian mountains. In between physical training and nutritional counselling, nightly pillow fights and a secret bout of binge drinking at the local disco, she falls in love with the doctor and camp director, who is forty years her senior. Melanie uses all her seductive wiles to win him over …
In the third part of his 'paradise' trilogy - following Paradies: Liebe and Paradies: Glaube - Ulrich Seidl pits the deep-seated human desire for love and security against harsh reality. From the sterile surroundings of the diet camp, Seidl filters impeccably pristine, minimalist images in which any hint of sensuality, passion or anarchy would appear to be a complete anathema. And yet Paradies: Hoffnung is the most tender of the three ‘paradise’ films, for his young protagonists bear within them a spark of hope that love is not just an illusion, but can be an honest and powerful emotion.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Berlin International Film Festival 2013
Competition
Releases
Spain (30 of August 2013)
United kingdom (2 of August 2013)
France (24 of April 2013)
Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2013
Call number 21/2012
Media support 174.200,00€
Countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France
Deadline 01/07/2013 - Estonia: EE: OÜ MUST KÄSI 2, 1.500,00€
Call for proposals i2i Audiovisual
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2011
Call number 01/2011
France: ID UNLIMITED (HAPPINESS DISTRIBUTION) - 5.633,00€
Netherlands: STICHTING FILM INSTITUUT NEDERLAND - 4.500,00€
UK: SODA PICTURES LIMITED - 4.275,00€
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2013
Call number 07/2012
Lithuania: VIESOJI ISTAIGA “SKALVIJOS” KINO CENTRAS - 300,00€
Poland: AGAINST GRAVITY SP. Z O.O. - 4.200,00€
Romania: CLOROFILM SRL - 1.200,00€
Distribution:
Neue Visionen (Germany)
Happiness Distribution (France)
Soda Pictures (United kingdom)
