Paradise

Name: Paradise
Genre: Drama, War
Released: October 6, 2017
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Christian Clauss, George Lenz, Irina Demidkina, Jakob Diehl, Jean Denis Römer

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Film Movement | Release Date: October 6, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Christian Clauss, George Lenz, Irina Demidkina, Jakob Diehl, Jean Denis Römer, Peter Kurth, Philippe Duquesne, Ramona Kunze-Libnow, Thomas Darchinger, Viktor Sukhorukov, Yuliya Vysotskaya

Summary: Paradise tells the story of three individuals and the fateful decisions they make, forced by a totality of conviction. Olga (Julia Vysotskaya) is a beautiful Russian aristocratic émigré and member of the French Resistance; Jules (Philippe Duquesne) is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut (ChristianParadise tells the story of three individuals and the fateful decisions they make, forced by a totality of conviction. Olga (Julia Vysotskaya) is a beautiful Russian aristocratic émigré and member of the French Resistance; Jules (Philippe Duquesne) is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut (Christian Clauss) is a high-ranking, yet naïve German SS officer who once fell madly in love with Olga and meets her again when she is shipped to a concentration camp. While they recount their stories, the film flashes back to the end of World War II and the days when their destinies crossed.… Expand

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Genre(s): Drama, War

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 130 min

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Chuck Bowen

Oct 4, 2017

Andrei Konchalovsky's film is more than an exercise, as pitiless moments accumulate with enraged relentlessness. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Oct 4, 2017

The film’s tone and outlook is changeable throughout — down to a striking, only semi-successful framing device of docu-style testimonies that hover deliberately between worlds. Read full review

John Bleasdale

Oct 4, 2017

There's a lot that's wonderful about Andrei Konchalovsky's Holocaust drama Paradise and yet there's something fundamentally wrong with the film. Read full review

Neil Young

Oct 4, 2017

Strong performances and outstanding cinematography aren't enough to rescue an unfocused and episodic screenplay, which will leave many stranded in a purgatorial cinematic-halfway house between bliss and despair. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Oct 5, 2017

Paradise is a strikingly shot Holocaust drama that ultimately seems confused about whose story it’s telling or to what end. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Oct 4, 2017

The Holocaust has undergone some awkward treatments on screen before, but one of the most ungainly recent examples must be Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise, a well-intentioned but very soft-edged mess of romance, metaphysics and historical theorising. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 12, 2017

Paradise and its predictable waltz of suffering, choked consciousness and monstrosity adds little to the problematic subset of camp-themed World War II movies, which feel like nostalgia for hell. Read full review

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