Director: Boris Kunz
Cast: Kostja Ullmann, Corinna Kirchhoff, Marlene Tanczik, Iris Berben, Lisa-Marie Koroll
Paradise is a 2025 German sci-fi thriller series directed by Boris Kunz, set in a near future where human lifespan can be bought, sold, and transferred like a commodity — and one man's desperate love for his wife pulls him into the darkest corners of this trade.
What is Paradise about?
In a world where life-years have become a currency, a husband watches helplessly as his wife surrenders four decades of her remaining life to settle an insurance debt they could not escape. Left with a wife who has aged forty years overnight and a system that calls the transaction legal and final, he refuses to accept the outcome. His search for a way to reverse what was done leads him through the shadowy institutions, black markets, and morally compromised figures that keep this economy running — forcing him to confront what he is willing to do, and who he is willing to become, for the person he loves.
Cast & crew
Director Boris Kunz, known for his sharp German genre work, steers a strong ensemble. Kostja Ullmann carries the emotional weight of the series as the determined husband, while Iris Berben brings gravitas as a figure embedded in the life-trading establishment. Corinna Kirchhoff and Marlene Tanczik round out a cast that makes this speculative world feel uncomfortably plausible.
Context & significance
German sci-fi has quietly built a reputation for grounded, socially pointed storytelling — from the time-loop corridors of Dark to the corporate dystopias that followed — and Paradise fits squarely in that tradition. For Persian-speaking diaspora viewers, its themes of debt, sacrifice, and the commodification of time carry particular weight: the premise mirrors real anxieties about economic precarity and the lengths families go to protect one another. The series is available with full Persian dubbing, so viewers can follow every twist in their native language without missing any emotional nuance.
Where & how to watch
Paradise is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on any browser, Android TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start or stop your subscription anytime.