Paradise: Faith

Paradise: Faith

2013 · 109 min · DE · NR · 6.5 (134 votes)
Dir. Ulrich Seidl · Starring Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalija Baranova, Daniel Hoesl, René Rupnik, Trude Masur · Paradise Trilogy
Drama

For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.

VIBE

This film feels like a stark, unflinching examination of faith tested by worldly desires. Its austere visuals and deliberate pace create an unsettling, almost spiritual, unease, forcing contemplation on devotion and temptation.

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