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Paradise: Hope

2013 · 92 min · Director: Ulrich Seidl ★ IMDb 6.6 · 5,443 ratings

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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.

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Paradise: Hope (2013) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Anxiety 30%, Empathy 25%, Melancholy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Anxiety, Empathy, Melancholy. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

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Cast

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Melanie Lenz

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Melanie Lenz

Melanie

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Verena Lehbauer

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Joseph Lorenz

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Michael Thomas

Sports Coach

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Vivian Bartsch

Nutritionist

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Johanna Schmid

Hanni

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Maria Hofstätter

Anna Maria

Details

Directed by
Ulrich Seidl
Type
Movies
Released
2013
Runtime
92 min
Country
Austria, France, Germany
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.6 · 5,443 ratings
Feels mostly
Anxiety
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