Synopsis
Paradise (Рай, 2016) is a Russian-German wartime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Shot entirely in black and white, the film unfolds through direct-to-camera confessions: three people whose lives crossed during the Second World War each present their version of events.
Olga is a Russian aristocrat living in exile who joins the French Resistance and is arrested for hiding Jewish children. Jules, the French collaborator assigned to her case, makes offers. Then comes the concentration camp — and Helmut, a senior SS officer who loved Olga years earlier in a vanished prewar world. Julia Vysotskaya, Philippe Duquesne and Viktor Sukhorukov play the three. Konchalovsky is not staging atrocity; he is asking what human dignity means once every external condition has been taken away.
The film claimed the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and was selected as Russia's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Stream Paradise online on iFILM.
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