Paradies: Glaube

In PARADISE: FAITH, Ulrich Seidl examines what it means to take up the cross. For Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, paradise lies with Jesus. She dedicates everything she does and is to him. She spends her holidays going from house to house with 40 cm tall travelling statues of the Mother of God. When one day her husband, an Egyptian and Muslim, comes home after years of absence, her life is thrown out of joint. There is singing, praying and fighting. PARADISE: FAITH tells of the crossroads of a marriage and the longing for love. It is the second part of Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE trilogy. At its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the film caused a major scandal because of a masturbation scene. (Florian Widegger)