Paradies: Liebe

Casting of the lead actress took one year before Margarethe Tiesel won the part. "From the beginning I knew I wanted to work with a professional actor for the main role. But the job description was extremely demanding. A woman over fifty who doesn't correspond to the usual Western beauty ideals, in that she's overweight, for example. As usual with my method, she had to possess the ability to improvise scenes and to appear authentic on camera. And then there was the greatest difficulty: She had to shoot nude sex scenes, fall for these young black men.," director Ulrich Seidl said. "A few weeks before we started the shooting, I went to Africa with three actresses, one after the other: I wanted them to try out on site, so I could find out right there how they would communicate with African men, how they would touch the skin of African men, and things of that kind.It was only then that I decided in favour of Margarete Tiesel."

Featured in Pauw & Witteman: Episodio #7.65 (2013)