[3] It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.

He is interested in her and accepts her offer of sex in exchange for the release of a Russian prisoner she knows, but Jules is murdered by the French resistance before this occurs.

The Nazis are already close to defeat, and Helmut decides to save Olga from the camp and run away with her to South America.

Olga, having lost hope of freedom agrees, but at the last moment realizes that her idea of paradise has changed.

The website's critical consensus states, "Paradise hits hard and lingers, although viewers who've seen a number of other Holocaust-set dramas may find it all a bit familiar".