While the film is dedicated to the Russian émigrés who saved Jewish children in France, Paradise's main character is the Nazi who is presented in a very Russian manner: an elegant, intelligent, yet ruthless man who believes with all his heart in the sanctity and justness of his cause; a man who also at one point confesses his admiration for Stalin and Communism. Politically speaking, this is all rather disagreeable if not outright despicable.
Olaf Möller
December 22, 2016