The Paradise Suite

Oct 29, 2015

1h 58m

★ 6.4

Overview

The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

GötaFilm

PRPL

Bastide Films

The Paradise Suite Trailers

Cast

Jenya

Anjela Nedyalkova

Ivica

Boris Isaković

Seka

Jasna Đuričić

Yaya

Issaka Sawadogo

Lukas

Erik Adelöw

Stig

Magnus Krepper

Maarten

Raymond Thiry

Antoinette

Sigrid ten Napel

Julia Lindh Åberg

Eva Röse

Ana

Victoria Koblenko

Nanda

Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing

Zina

Alena Džebo

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4.5

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6.4

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