Paradise
(2019, original release: 2016)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Film Movement, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (132 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
6324705
LANGUAGE
Russian
NOTES

Title from title frames

Olga is a beautiful Russian countess and member of the French Resistance; Jules is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut is a handsome, 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, PARADISE drifts between the bloody end of World War II and the gilded, halcyon days when their destinies first crossed. Victim, bystander, or monster – Konchalovsky collapses these identities, offering a new perspective on the Holocaust. Shot in stunning black and white, the film depicts the morally complex choices that one must make during the darkest of times. Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at the **Venice Film Festival.** *"Russian veteran Andrei Konchalovsky is in robust form in this richly monochrome, perspective-rotating Holocaust drama." - Guy Lodge, **Variety***

Film

In Process Record

Chritian Clauß, Phillipe Duquesne, Yuliya Vysotskaya

Originally produced by Film Movement in 2016

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In German

Additional Credits