DVD Release: Paradise (2016)

By
Laurence
– February 6, 2018Find Others: DVD, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , , ,

DVD Release Date: Feb. 13, 2017
Price: DVD $19.42
Studio: Film Movement

The 2016 period war drama Paradise is the latest film by renowned Russian filmmaker director Andrei Konchalovsky (Runaway Train).

Olga (Julia Vysotskaya) is a beautiful Russian countess and member of the French Resistance during the war; Jules (Philippe Duquesne) is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut (Christian Clauss) 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, the film drifts between the bloody end of World War II and the gilded, halcyon days when their destinies first crossed.

Paradise premiered at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival, where Konchalovsky won the Silver Lion for Best Director and where the film was nominated for a Golden Lion for Best Film. From there, it won awards at the Chicago, Gijon and San Francisco Jewish Film Festivals, in addition to being Russia’s official submission to the 89th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Buy or Rent Paradise (2016)
on DVD

Related titles:

  1. Blu-ray, DVD Release: Le silence de la mer
  2. DVD Release: Breathe
  3. Blu-ray, DVD Release: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
  4. DVD, VOD Release: Blush
  5. Blu-ray, DVD Release: Hana-Bi (Fireworks)

About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.