'Paradise' - 40 years in 30 seconds – New Clip Released

Producers: Simon Amberger, Korbinian Dufter and Rafael Parente

Director: Boris Kunz

Director of Photography: Christian Stangassinger

Screenplay: Peter Kocyla, Boris Kunz, and Simon Amberger

Production Design: Marc Bitz and Josef Brandl

Cast: Kostja Ullmann, Iris Berben, Marlene Tanczik, Corinna Kirchhoff, Lisa-Marie Koroll, Alina Levshin, Lorna Ishema, Numan Acar, and Lisa Loven Kongsli

Production: NEUESUPER GmbH

Coming on July 27, 2023 - exclusively on Netflix!

Berlin, July 24, 2023 – The gripping near-future thriller starring Kostja Ullmann and Iris Berben starts in just three days, only on Netflix.

Learn five remarkable facts to mark the start of Paradise on Netflix:

• Two for one 

Actors Marlene Tanczik (young Elena) and Corinna Kirchhoff (older Elena) had an unusual job in the movie. The pair spent a lot of time together so that they were able to play the same role – with 40 years between them. In the movie, the aging process isn't a sudden change, it's a smooth transition. To achieve this, Marlene Tanczik had to spend around five hours in make-up – on her birthday!

• Generation 100+

According to James W. Vaupel, the founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, one in every two children born today will celebrate their 103rd birthday.

• A genre movie from Germany? 

"I find genre pieces especially exciting and I love it when I, as a filmmaker, get the opportunity to design a whole new world," director Boris Kunz says excitedly about the near-future thriller.  "The story is so exciting, if I had to, I'd have told it without the futuristic aspect too! I hope that the movie is so well received that more creators in Germany feel comfortable making genre movies.”

• Location, location, location

Paradise was mostly filmed in Germany and Lithuania. Filming locations in Berlin included the velodrome and the crematorium on Baumschulenweg. Fun fact: The scenes at Tempelhof airfield were actually filmed near Vilnius using a huge container storage set in front of green screens. Another pivotal filming location was an old Soviet swimming pool in a former health resort on the Lithuanian coast, which is now thoroughly dilapidated – the perfect backdrop for the showdown.

• It's a rich man's world

The dream of eternal life has long since ceased to be the stuff of utopian fantasy; instead, it's the subject of intensive research. Whether you remain healthy and fit in old age is partly down to your genetics, but mostly based on your income and level of education, on the environment you live in and your lifestyle, says senior scientist Dr. Frank Berner (The German Center of Gerontology). The group with the highest income has a higher life expectancy on average in comparison to the group with the lowest income. To be precise, men in this group are expected to live eight years longer and women four years.

About Paradise

Trade your life for money: In the not-too-distant future, a method of transferring years of your life from one person to another has changed the world forever and turned biotech start-up AEON into a billion-dollar pharmaceutical company. 

Max and Elena live an almost perfect life. But when the couple is faced with unexpected insurance claims that they can’t pay, everything quickly changes. To pay off their debts, Elena (Marlene Tanczik) must “pay” with 40 years of her life. Robbed of their life together, their future lies in tatters. Max (Kostja Ullmann), who works for AEON, tries everything he can to get Elena’s lost years back. But nothing will ever be the same again.

The gripping thriller set in the near future was produced by Simon Amberger, Korbinian Dufter, and Rafael Parente from NEUESUPER GmbH (Hindafing, Luden). The screenplay was written by director Boris Kunz (Hindafing, Breaking Even) together with Peter Kocyla (Luden) and Simon Amberger. Christian Stangassinger (Barbarians, Season 1) acts as Director of Photography, with Marc Bitz (Baghead) and Josef Brandl (The Goldfish) on set design.

Kostja Ullmann (My Blind Date with Life) and Iris Berben (How About Adolf?) star alongside Corinna Kirchhoff (Die Diplomatin), Marlene Tanczik (Never Look Away), Lisa-Marie Koroll (Ze Network), Alina Levshin (Combat Girls), Lorna Ishema (Hyperland), Numan Acar (Homeland), and Lisa Loven Kongsli (Force Majeure).

About NEUESUPER

NEUESUPER was founded in 2010 by Simon Amberger, Korbinian Dufter and Rafael Parente. The production company focuses on high-quality series and movies for the national and international market. In 2018, NEUESUPER was awarded the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis and the Romy Television Award for Hindafing. Besides drama series like Eight Days for Sky and the ZDFneo series Breaking Even, the company has created Tatort: Dreams, produced in collaboration with BR, the sitcom Wrong for RTL+, the high-end series Luden for Prime Video, and the adaptation I don’t work here for ZDFneo, among others. Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl for RTL+ and the near-future thriller Paradise for Netflix are currently in post-production.

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