Synopsis
Melanie is spending her summer vacation in a health centre to lose weight. Between sports activities, nutritional advice, pillow fights and her first cigarettes, Melanie falls under the spell of the centre's director, a doctor forty years her senior. She loves like a person who is in love for the first time and tries desperately to seduce him. Aware that is love affair is impossible, he tries to fight against the feelings of guilt that overcome him. Melanie imagined that her paradise would be a lot different than this.
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- Co-production : Coproduction Office
- Foreign production companies : Tatfilm, Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
- Film exports/foreign sales : Coproduction Office
- French distribution : Happiness Distribution
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
- Director of Photography : Wolfgang Thaler
- Editor : Christof Schertenleib
- Sound Recordist : Ekkehart Baumung
- Costume designer : Tanja Hausner
- Producer : Ulrich Seidl
- Press Attaché (film) : Matilde Incerti
- Continuity supervisor : Veronika Franz
- Production Designers : Renate Martin, Andreas Donhauser
- Casting : Eva Roth
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : German
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany, Austria
- Original French-language productions : No
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